CRM197-conjugated peptides vaccine of HCMV pp65 and gH induce maturation of DC and effective viral-specific T cell responses.

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"This work was supported by the Shandong Provincial Science 555 and technology Foundation under grant no. 2019JZZY011009; Qingdao Municipal Science and technology Foundation under grant no. 20-2-3-4-nsh; and National Key Research and Development Program of China under grant no. 2018YFA0900802 Author contributions: Shuyun Zhang: Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – Original Draft. Fulong Nan: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – Review & Editing. Shasha Jiang: Conceptualization, Methodology, Investigation. Xiaoqiong Zhou, Delei Niu, Jun Li: Methodology, Investigation. Hui Wang, Xueming Zhang, Xianjuan Zhang: Investigation. Bin Wang: Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Project administration, Funding acquisition."