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Table 6 Effects of number of unique dengue virus serotype 2 (DV2) envelope sequences (N) on short-peptide (9-mer) antigenic diversity.

From: Large-scale analysis of antigenic diversity of T-cell epitopes in dengue virus

Number of unique sequences (N)

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

Length of sequences

460 aa

460 aa

460 aa

460 aa

460 aa

460 aa

460 aa

Minimal number of unique sequences that represent complete short-peptide antigenic diversity (Mean ± SE)

18 ± 0.30

32 ± 0.54

46 ± 0.70

58 ± 0.87

70 ± 0.87

80 ± 0.87

90 ± 0.71

Percentage of unique sequences that represent complete short-peptide antigenic diversity (%) (Mean ± SE)

90 ± 1.5

80 ± 1.35

77 ± 1.17

73 ± 1.09

70 ± 0.87

67 ± 0.73

64 ± 0.51

  1. The mean and standard error (SE) values are shown for random repeated sampling of 20 times.