Carla Kuiken

Web-based design and evaluation of T-cell vaccine candidates (2008)

Thurmond, James, Yoon, Hyejin, Kuiken, Carla, Yusim, Karina, Perkins, Simon, Theiler, James, ...

Summary: We present a suite of on-line tools to design candidate vaccine proteins, and to assess antigen potential, using coverage of k-mers (as proxies for potential T-cell epitopes) as a metric....

The hepatitis C sequence database in Los Alamos (2008)

Kuiken, Carla, Hraber, Peter, Thurmond, James, Yusim, Karina

The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a significant public health threat worldwide. The virus is highly variable and evolves rapidly, making it an elusive target for the immune system and for vaccine and...

Comparative analysis of hepatitis C virus phylogenies from coding and non-coding regions: the 5' untranslated region (UTR) fails to classify subtypes (2006)

Hraber, Peter T, Fischer, William, Bruno, William J, Leitner, Thomas, Kuiken, Carla

Abstract Background The duration of treatment for HCV infection is partly indicated by the genotype of the virus. For studies of disease transmission, vaccine design, and surveillance for novel...

A jumping profile Hidden Markov Model and applications to recombination sites in HIV and HCV genomes (2006)

Schultz, Anne-Kathrin, Zhang, Ming, Leitner, Thomas, Kuiken, Carla, Korber, Bette, Morgenstern, Burkhard, ...

Abstract Background Jumping alignments have recently been proposed as a strategy to search a given multiple sequence alignment A against a database. Instead of comparing a database sequence S to the...

jpHMM at GOBICS: a web server to detect genomic recombinations in HIV-1 (2006)

Zhang, Ming, Schultz, Anne-Kathrin, Calef, Charles, Kuiken, Carla, Leitner, Thomas, Korber, Bette, ...

Detecting recombinations in the genome sequence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) is crucial for epidemiological studies and for vaccine development. Herein, we present a web server for...

The Los Alamos hepatitis C sequence database (2005)

Kuiken, Carla, Yusim, Karina, Boykin, Laura, Richardson, Russell

Motivation: The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a significant threat to public health worldwide. The virus is highly variable and evolves rapidly, making it an elusive target for the immune system and for...

Tracking global patterns of N-linked glycosylation site variation in highly variable viral glycoproteins: HIV, SIV, and HCV envelopes, and influenza hemagglutinin (2004)

Zhang, Ming, Gaschen, Brian, Blay, Wendy, Foley, Brian, Haigwood, Nancy, Kuiken, Carla, ...

Human and simian immunodeficiency viruses (HIV and SIV), influenza virus, and hepatitis C virus (HCV) have heavily glycosylated, highly variable surface proteins. Here we explore Nlinked...

Tracking global patterns of N-linked glycosylation site variation in highly variable viral glycoproteins: HIV, SIV, and HCV envelopes and influenza hemagglutinin (2004)

Zhang, Ming, Gaschen, Brian, Blay, Wendy, Foley, Brian, Haigwood, Nancy, Kuiken, Carla, ...

Human and simian immunodeficiency viruses (HIV and SIV), influenza virus, and hepatitis C virus (HCV) have heavily glycosylated, highly variable surface proteins. Here we explore N-linked...

The Los Alamos hepatitis C sequence database (2004)

Kuiken, Carla, Yusim, Karina, Boykin, Laura, Richardson, Russell

Motivation: The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a significant public health threat worldwide. The virus is highly variable and evolves rapidly, making it an elusive target for the immune system and for...

Tracking global patterns of N-linked glycosylation site variation in highly variable viral glycoproteins: HIV, SIV, and HCV envelopes, and influenza hemagglutinin (2004)

Zhang, Ming, Gaschen, Brian, Blay, Wendy, Foley, Brian, Haigwood, Nancy, Kuiken, Carla, ...

Human and simian immunodeficiency viruses (HIV and SIV), influenza virus, and hepatitis C virus (HCV) have heavily glycosylated, highly variable surface proteins. Here we explore Nlinked...

The Los Alamos hepatitis C sequence database (2004)

Kuiken, Carla, Yusim, Karina, Boykin, Laura, Richardson, Russell

Motivation: The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a significant public health threat worldwide. The virus is highly variable and evolves rapidly, making it an elusive target for the immune system and for...

Retrieval and on-the-fly alignment of sequence fragments from the HIV database (2001)

Gaschen, Brian, Kuiken, Carla, Korber, Bette, Foley, Brian

Motivation: The amount of HIV-1 sequence data generated (presently around 42000 sequences, of which more than 22000 are from the V3 region of the viral envelope) presents a challenge for anyone...

Genetic Analysis Reveals Epidemiologic Patterns in the Spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (2000)

Kuiken, Carla, Thakallapalli, Rama, Eskild, Anne, De Ronde, Anthony

The extreme variability of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) makes it possible to conduct transmission studies on the basis of genetic analysis and to trace global and local patterns in the...

Evolution of Syncytium-Inducing and Non-Syncytium-Inducing Biological Virus Clones in Relation to Replication Kinetics during the Course of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection

Van ’t Wout, Angélique B., Blaak, Hetty, Ran, Leonie J., Brouwer, Margreet, Kuiken, Carla, Schuitemaker, Hanneke

To investigate the temporal relationship between human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) replicative capacity and syncytium-inducing (SI) phenotype, biological and genetic characteristics of...

Structure and Function of CC-Chemokine Receptor 5 Homologues Derived from Representative Primate Species and Subspecies of the Taxonomic Suborders Prosimii and Anthropoidea

Kunstman, Kevin J., Puffer, Bridget, Korber, Bette T., Kuiken, Carla, Smith, Una R., Kunstman, Jennifer, ...

A chemokine receptor from the seven-transmembrane-domain G-protein-coupled receptor superfamily is an essential coreceptor for the cellular entry of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and...

jpHMM at GOBICS: a web server to detect genomic recombinations in HIV-1

Zhang, Ming, Schultz, Anne-Kathrin, Calef, Charles, Kuiken, Carla, Leitner, Thomas, Korber, Bette, ...

Detecting recombinations in the genome sequence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) is crucial for epidemiological studies and for vaccine development. Herein, we present a web server for...

Evolution of Syncytium-Inducing and Non-Syncytium-Inducing Biological Virus Clones in Relation to Replication Kinetics during the Course of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection

Van ’t Wout, Angélique B., Blaak, Hetty, Ran, Leonie J., Brouwer, Margreet, Kuiken, Carla, Schuitemaker, Hanneke

To investigate the temporal relationship between human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) replicative capacity and syncytium-inducing (SI) phenotype, biological and genetic characteristics of...

Structure and Function of CC-Chemokine Receptor 5 Homologues Derived from Representative Primate Species and Subspecies of the Taxonomic Suborders Prosimii and Anthropoidea

Kunstman, Kevin J., Puffer, Bridget, Korber, Bette T., Kuiken, Carla, Smith, Una R., Kunstman, Jennifer, ...

A chemokine receptor from the seven-transmembrane-domain G-protein-coupled receptor superfamily is an essential coreceptor for the cellular entry of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and...

jpHMM at GOBICS: a web server to detect genomic recombinations in HIV-1

Zhang, Ming, Schultz, Anne-Kathrin, Calef, Charles, Kuiken, Carla, Leitner, Thomas, Korber, Bette, ...

Detecting recombinations in the genome sequence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) is crucial for epidemiological studies and for vaccine development. Herein, we present a web server for...

Antiviral drug-resistant HBV: Standardization of nomenclature and assays and recommendations for management

Lok, Anna S., Zoulim, Fabien, Locarnini, Stephen, Bartholomeusz, Angeline, Ghany, Marc G., Pawlotsky, Jean-Michel, ...

Substantial advances have been made in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B in the past decade. Approved treatments for chronic hepatitis B include 2 formulations of interferon and 4 nucleos(t)ide...

The hepatitis C sequence database in Los Alamos

Kuiken, Carla, Hraber, Peter, Thurmond, James, Yusim, Karina

The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a significant public health threat worldwide. The virus is highly variable and evolves rapidly, making it an elusive target for the immune system and for vaccine and...