Functional studies of HLA and its role in SARS-CoV-2: Stimulating T cell response and vaccine development.

"Declaration of competing interest The authors declare no conflict of interest."

"Funding sources This work was supported by 10.13039/501100001809National Natural Science Foundation of China, SGC's Rapid Response Funding for COVID-19 (No. C-0002), the 10.13039/501100001809National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81970008, 82000020), the Graduate Research and Innovation Foundation of Chongqing, China (No. CYS22080), the 10.13039/501100012226Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2021CDJZYJH-002, 2019CDYGZD009 and 2020CDJYGRH-1005), Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing, China (No. cstc2020jcyj-msxmX0460) and Chongqing Talents: Exceptional Young Talents Project (No. cstc2021ycjh-bgzxm0099). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."