Preemptive priming readily overcomes structure-based mechanisms of virus escape.
Valkenburg, S.A., Gras, S., Guillonneau, C., Hatton, L.A., Bird, N.A., Twist, K.A., Halim, H., Jackson, D.C., Purcell, A.W., Turner, S.J., Doherty, P.C., Rossjohn, J., Kedzierska, K.(2013) Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 110: 5570-5575
- PubMed: 23493558 
- DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1302935110
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
- PubMed Abstract: 
A reverse-genetics approach has been used to probe the mechanism underlying immune escape for influenza A virus-specific CD8(+) T cells responding to the immunodominant D(b)NP366 epitope. Engineered viruses with a substitution at a critical residue ( ...