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Abstract

The two sister cytomegaloviruses (CMVs), human and murine CMV, have both evolved immune evasion functions that interfere with the major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC-I) pathway of antigen processing and presentation and are effectual in the early (E) phase of virus gene expression. However, studies on murine CMV have shown that E-phase immune evasion is leaky. An E-phase protein involved in immune evasion, namely -gp34, was found to simultaneously account for an antigenic peptide presented by the MHC-I molecule D. Recent work has demonstrated the induction of protective immunity specific for the E-phase protein -p65, one of two murine CMV homologues of the human CMV matrix protein -pp65. In this study, the identification of the MHC-I K-restricted M84 peptide AYAGLFTPL is documented. This peptide is the third antigenic peptide described for murine CMV and the second that escapes immunosubversive mechanisms.

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