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Youth has its privileges: maturation inhibits DC cross-primingHeather D Hickman-Miller
Nat Immunol 7:125-6. 2006
Understanding presentation of viral antigens to CD8+ T cells in vivo: the key to rational vaccine designJonathan W Yewdell
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 0440, USA
Annu Rev Immunol 23:651-82. 2005..These studies point the way to detailed understanding and provide some key information for vaccine development, although much remains to be learned to enable truly rational vaccine design...
Quantitating defective ribosome productsShu-Bing Qian
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Methods Mol Biol 301:271-81. 2005..Protein degradation kinetics can be determined by either acid precipitation or SDS-PAGE. The introduction of proteasome inhibitors enables quantitation of proteasome-mediated protein degradation in vivo...
The seven dirty little secrets of major histocompatibility complex class I antigen processingJonathan W Yewdell
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892 0440, USA
Immunol Rev 207:8-18. 2005..Here, I discuss some of the DLSs of major histocompatibility complex class I antigen processing...
Back to the fold: T cell recognition of HFE, a MHC class Ib molecule that regulates iron metabolismJonathan W Yewdell
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892-0440, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:12649-50. 2005
The DRiP hypothesis decennial: support, controversy, refinement and extensionJonathan W Yewdell
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892 0440, USA
Trends Immunol 27:368-73. 2006....
How to succeed in science: a concise guide for young biomedical scientists. Part II: making discoveriesJonathan W Yewdell
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 9:491-4. 2008..Here, I provide practical advice to young scientists on choosing a research topic, designing, performing and interpreting experiments and, last but not least, on maintaining your sanity in the process...
How to succeed in science: a concise guide for young biomedical scientists. Part I: taking the plungeJonathan W Yewdell
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 9:413-6. 2008..Although my advice is geared towards succeeding in the United States, many aspects apply to other countries...
CD8+ T cell cross-priming via transfer of proteasome substratesChristopher C Norbury
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD, 20892-0440, USA
Science 304:1318-21. 2004..We show here that cross-priming is based on the transfer of proteasome substrates rather than peptides. These findings are potentially important for the rational design of vaccines that elicit CD8+ T cell responses...
Tight linkage between translation and MHC class I peptide ligand generation implies specialized antigen processing for defective ribosomal productsShu-Bing Qian
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Immunol 177:227-33. 2006..We propose that specialized machinery exists to link protein synthesis with class I peptide ligand generation to enable the rapid detection of viral gene expression...
Efficient cross-priming of antiviral CD8+ T cells by antigen donor cells is GRP94 independentAvital Lev
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Immunol 183:4205-10. 2009..In demonstrating the dispensability of GRP94, our finding points to the importance of alternative mechanisms for generation of class I peptide complexes from endogenous and exogenous Ags and immunogens...
Unexpected role for the immunoproteasome subunit LMP2 in antiviral humoral and innate immune responsesScott E Hensley
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Immunol 184:4115-22. 2010..These findings demonstrate an important role for immunoproteasomes in immune cell function beyond their contribution to Ag processing...
CD8 alpha alpha-mediated intraepithelial lymphocyte snatching of thymic leukemia MHC class Ib molecules in vitro and in vivoNathalie Pardigon
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Immunol 177:1590-8. 2006..Induction of bowel inflammation results in the presence of TL on IELs, probably via in vivo snatching, providing the initial evidence for the interaction of CD8alphaalpha IELs with intestinal cells...
Defective ribosomal products are the major source of antigenic peptides endogenously generated from influenza A virus neuraminidaseBrian P Dolan
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Immunol 184:1419-24. 2010..These observations extend the relevance of the DRiP hypothesis to viral proteins generated in their natural context...
RNA polymerase II inhibitors dissociate antigenic peptide generation from normal viral protein synthesis: a role for nuclear translation in defective ribosomal product synthesis?Brian P Dolan
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Immunol 185:6728-33. 2010..These data support the idea that Ag processing uses compartmentalized translation, perhaps even in the nucleus itself, to increase the efficiency of the generation of class I peptide ligands...
Fitness costs limit influenza A virus hemagglutinin glycosylation as an immune evasion strategySuman R Das
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:E1417-22. 2011..These findings show that, although N-linked glycosylation can broadly diminish HA antigenicity, fitness costs restrict its deployment in immune evasion...
Compartmentalized MHC class I antigen processing enhances immunosurveillance by circumventing the law of mass actionAvital Lev
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:6964-9. 2010..This provides an explanation for the exquisite ability of T cells to recognize peptides generated from otherwise undetected gene products...
Influenza A virus hemagglutinin antibody escape promotes neuraminidase antigenic variation and drug resistanceScott E Hensley
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e15190. 2011..These findings indicate that influenza A virus resistance to NA inhibitors can potentially arise from antibody driven HA escape, confounding analysis of influenza NA evolution in nature...
Poxvirus CD8+ T-cell determinants and cross-reactivity in BALB/c miceDavid C Tscharke
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Virol 80:6318-23. 2006..We then use these determinants to test if predicted conservation across orthopoxvirus species matches experimental observation and find an unexpectedly cross-reactive variant peptide encoded by ectromelia (mousepox) virus...
Direct priming of antiviral CD8+ T cells in the peripheral interfollicular region of lymph nodesHeather D Hickman
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Nat Immunol 9:155-65. 2008..Thus, antigen presentation at the lymph node periphery, not at lymphocyte exit sites in deeper lymph node venules, as dogma dictates, has a dominant function in antiviral CD8+ T cell activation...
Regulatory T cells suppress CD8+ T cell responses induced by direct priming and cross-priming and moderate immunodominance disparitiesS M Mansour Haeryfar
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Immunol 174:3344-51. 2005..Therefore, Treg influence TCD8 immunodominance hierarchies by moderating disparities in responses to different determinants...
Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase establishes and broadens antiviral CD8+ T cell immunodominance hierarchiesS M Mansour Haeryfar
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Immunol 181:649-59. 2008....
Cutting edge: Sympathetic nervous system increases proinflammatory cytokines and exacerbates influenza A virus pathogenesisKristie M Grebe
Laboratories of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Immunol 184:540-4. 2010..These findings demonstrate an unexpected role for the sympathetic nervous system in innate antiviral immunity and in exacerbating the pathology of a virus of great significance to human and animal health...
Identification of poxvirus CD8+ T cell determinants to enable rational design and characterization of smallpox vaccinesDavid C Tscharke
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Exp Med 201:95-104. 2005..These findings have important implications for understanding poxvirus immunity in animal models and bench-marking immune responses to poxvirus vaccines in humans...
Heat-aggregated noninfectious influenza virus induces a more balanced CD8(+)-T-lymphocyte immunodominance hierarchy than infectious virusYunjung Cho
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Virol 77:4679-84. 2003..Furthermore, they demonstrate that the form of antigen administered can influence immunodominance hierarchies and that exogenous-antigen vaccines can induce broad and balanced T(CD8+) responses...
Hemagglutinin receptor binding avidity drives influenza A virus antigenic driftScott E Hensley
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Science 326:734-6. 2009....
Characterization of rapidly degraded polypeptides in mammalian cells reveals a novel layer of nascent protein quality controlShu-Bing Qian
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0440, USA
J Biol Chem 281:392-400. 2006..The dichotomy in the behavior of RDPs points to a novel quality control level for nascent proteins that is independent of the well established Hsc70-ubiquitin 26 S proteasome pathway...
Quantitating T cell cross-reactivity for unrelated peptide antigensJeffrey Ishizuka
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda MD 20892, USA
J Immunol 183:4337-45. 2009....
Distinct pathways generate peptides from defective ribosomal products for CD8+ T cell immunosurveillanceBrian P Dolan
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Immunol 186:2065-72. 2011....
Chemokines control naive CD8+ T cell selection of optimal lymph node antigen presenting cellsHeather D Hickman
Cell Biology and Viral Immunology Sections, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, 2 Biological Imaging Facility, Research Technologies Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
J Exp Med 208:2511-24. 2011..Thus, virus-induced chemokines in DLNs enable antiviral CD8(+) T cells to distinguish DCs from macrophages to optimize T cell priming...
Quantitating protein synthesis, degradation, and endogenous antigen processingMichael F Princiotta
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Immunity 18:343-54. 2003....
From optical bench to cageside: intravital microscopy on the long road to rational vaccine designHeather D Hickman
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Immunol Rev 239:209-20. 2011....
RNA binding targets aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases to translating ribosomesAlexandre David
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Biol Chem 286:20688-700. 2011..S., Embry, A., Dolan, B., Das, S., Hickman, H. D., Berglund, P., Bennink, J. R., Yewdell, J. W., and Pan, T. (2009) Nature 462, 522-526) can be modulated at the level of individual mRNAs to modify decoding of specific gene products...
Immunology. Hide and seek in the peptidomeJonathan W Yewdell
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892-0440, USA
Science 301:1334-5. 2003
Sympathetic nervous system control of anti-influenza CD8+ T cell responsesKristie M Grebe
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:5300-5. 2009....
Immunodominance in TCD8+ responses to viruses: cell biology, cellular immunology, and mathematical modelsJonathan W Yewdell
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Immunity 21:149-53. 2004....
The exception that reinforces the rule: crosspriming by cytosolic peptides that escape degradationAvital Lev
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Immunity 28:787-98. 2008....
Systematic search fails to detect immunogenic MHC class-I-restricted determinants encoded by influenza A virus noncoding sequencesWeisan Chen
Laboratory of Viral Diseases Natonal Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0440, USA
Virology 305:50-4. 2003..These findings suggest that alternative reading frames are not a significant source of antigenic peptides in influenza virus infections and raise doubts regarding the general biological significance of ARF determinants...
Murine norovirus infection has no significant effect on adaptive immunity to vaccinia virus or influenza A virusScott E Hensley
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 208921, USA
J Virol 83:7357-60. 2009....
Proteasomes get by with lots of help from their friendsJonathan W Yewdell
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 208920 USA
Immunity 20:362-3. 2004..Now it appears that another protease, tripeptidyl peptidase II (TPP II), plays a critical role in cleaving proteasomal produced peptides into shorter peptides that can then be degraded by aminopeptidases...
Translating DRiPs: progress in understanding viral and cellular sources of MHC class I peptide ligandsBrian P Dolan
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Cell Mol Life Sci 68:1481-9. 2011....
Nuclear translation visualized by ribosome-bound nascent chain puromycylationAlexandre David
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
J Cell Biol 197:45-57. 2012..In this paper, we use the RPM to provide evidence for translation in the nucleoplasm and nucleolus, which is regulated by infectious and chemical stress...
Mice deficient in perforin, CD4+ T cells, or CD28-mediated signaling maintain the typical immunodominance hierarchies of CD8+ T-cell responses to influenza virusWeisan Chen
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases NIH, 4 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 0440, USA
J Virol 76:10332-7. 2002..This points to intrinsic features of the T(CD8+) repertoire as major contributors to immunodominance...
Heterosubtypic immunity to influenza A virus: where do we stand?Kristie M Grebe
Viral Immunology and Cellular Biology Sections, NIAID, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Bethesda, MD 20892 3209, USA
Microbes Infect 10:1024-9. 2008..Here we review current knowledge of the mechanisms contributing to HSI to influenza and speculate on the potential for this approach to contribute to public health...
Immune recognition of a human renal cancer antigen through post-translational protein splicingKen ichi Hanada
Surgery Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Building10, Room 2B42, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Nature 427:252-6. 2004..The occurrence of protein splicing in vertebrates has important implications for the complexity of the vertebrate proteome and for the immune recognition of self and foreign peptides...
Making sense of mass destruction: quantitating MHC class I antigen presentationJonathan W Yewdell
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0440, USA
Nat Rev Immunol 3:952-61. 2003
The influenza A virus PB1-F2 protein targets the inner mitochondrial membrane via a predicted basic amphipathic helix that disrupts mitochondrial functionJames S Gibbs
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Virol 77:7214-24. 2003..These findings demonstrate that PB1-F2 possesses an MTS similar to other viral proteins and that this MTS, when fused to EGFP, is capable of independently compromising mitochondrial function and cellular viability...
Monoclonal antibodies specific for discontinuous epitopes direct refolding of influenza A virus hemagglutininJonathan W Yewdell
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 03209, USA
Mol Immunol 47:1132-6. 2010....
Viral interference with antigen presentationJonathan W Yewdell
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD, USA
Nat Immunol 3:1019-25. 2002....
Designing CD8+ T cell vaccines: it's not rocket science (yet)Jonathan W Yewdell
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Curr Opin Immunol 22:402-10. 2010..With the rapid advances in this area of research, the dawn of rational vaccine design is at hand...
Glycosylation focuses sequence variation in the influenza A virus H1 hemagglutinin globular domainSuman R Das
NIAID, Bethesda, MA, USA
PLoS Pathog 6:e1001211. 2010..This supports the conclusion that glycosylation generally shields HA from antibody-mediated neutralization, and implies that fitness costs in accommodating oligosaccharides limit virus escape via HA hyperglycosylation...
Out with the old, in with the new? Comparing methods for measuring protein degradationJonathan W Yewdell
Cell Biology Section, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, U S A
Cell Biol Int 35:457-62. 2011....
Viral alteration of cellular translational machinery increases defective ribosomal productsPeter Berglund
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, 4 Center Drive, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 0440, USA
J Virol 81:7220-9. 2007....
Confronting complexity: real-world immunodominance in antiviral CD8+ T cell responsesJonathan W Yewdell
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Immunity 25:533-43. 2006..Here, I review work that has extended immunodominance studies to viruses of greater complexity and to the real world of human antiviral immunity...
The TL MHC class Ib molecule has only marginal effects on the activation, survival and trafficking of mouse small intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytesNathalie Pardigon
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Int Immunol 16:1305-13. 2004....
Cysteinyl-tRNA deacylation can be uncoupled from protein synthesisAlexandre David
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e33072. 2012..We discuss possible translation independent functions for tRNA(Cys)...
Innate immune and chemically triggered oxidative stress modifies translational fidelityNir Netzer
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Nature 462:522-6. 2009..In demonstrating an unexpected conditional aspect of decoding mRNA, our findings illustrate the importance of considering alternative iterations of the genetic code...
DRiPs solidify: progress in understanding endogenous MHC class I antigen processingJonathan W Yewdell
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Trends Immunol 32:548-58. 2011..DRiPs enable the immune system to rapidly detect alterations in cellular gene expression with great sensitivity...
New lane in the information highway: alternative reading frame peptides elicit T cells with potent antiretrovirus activityJonathan W Yewdell
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Exp Med 204:2501-4. 2007..ARF-specific T cells control retroviral replication and select for viral escape in monkeys, providing the most compelling evidence to date for the biological relevance of ARF immunosurveillance...
Plumbing the sources of endogenous MHC class I peptide ligandsJonathan W Yewdell
Cellular Biology Section, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892 0440, USA
Curr Opin Immunol 19:79-86. 2007....
Viral infection triggers rapid differentiation of human blood monocytes into dendritic cellsWanqiu Hou
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Blood 119:3128-31. 2012..These findings demonstrate that monocytes are uniquely susceptible to viral infection among blood mononuclear cells, with the likely purpose of generating cells with enhanced capacity to activate innate and acquired antiviral immunity...
Caught in the act: intravital multiphoton microscopy of host-pathogen interactionsHeather D Hickman
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Cell Host Microbe 5:13-21. 2009..Here we provide an overview of multiphoton microscopy with particular attention to its application for studying host-pathogen interactions...
Immunoproteasomes: regulating the regulatorJonathan W Yewdell
Cellular Biology Section, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-0440, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:9089-90. 2005
Fusion proteins with COOH-terminal ubiquitin are stable and maintain dual functionality in vivoShu-Bing Qian
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0440, USA
J Biol Chem 277:38818-26. 2002..The multifunctionality of X-Ub fusion proteins opens the possibility for a number of novel practical applications, including the imaging of Ub conjugate formation in living cells...
MF59 adjuvant enhances diversity and affinity of antibody-mediated immune response to pandemic influenza vaccinesSurender Khurana
Division of Viral Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Sci Transl Med 3:85ra48. 2011..Thus, MF59 quantitatively and qualitatively enhances functional antibody responses to HA-based vaccines by improving both epitope breadth and binding affinity, demonstrating the added value of such adjuvants for influenza vaccines...
Inhibitory effects of cytomegalovirus proteins US2 and US11 point to contributions from direct priming and cross-priming in induction of vaccinia virus-specific CD8(+) T cellsSameh Basta
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Immunol 168:5403-8. 2002....
HLA class I-restricted responses to vaccinia recognize a broad array of proteins mainly involved in virulence and viral gene regulationCarla Oseroff
La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, 3030 Bunker Hill Street, Suite 326, San Diego, CA 92109, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:13980-5. 2005..Finally, most epitopes were highly conserved among vaccinia virus Western Reserve, variola major and modified vaccinia Ankara, supporting their potential use in vaccine and diagnostic applications...
Inside the professionalsJonathan W Yewdell
Nature 418:923-4. 2002
HLA-A*0201, HLA-A*1101, and HLA-B*0702 transgenic mice recognize numerous poxvirus determinants from a wide variety of viral gene productsValerie Pasquetto
La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, San Diego, CA 92109, USA
J Immunol 175:5504-15. 2005..These findings have implications for the design of new smallpox vaccines and the understanding of immune responses to large DNA viruses in general...
Viruses in control of the immune system. Workshop on molecular mechanisms of immune modulation: lessons from virusesAntonio Alcami
Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, UK
EMBO Rep 3:927-32. 2002
Cross-priming of CD8+ T cells by viral and tumor antigens is a robust phenomenonWeisan Chen
T Cell Laboratory, Cancer Vaccine Unit, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Heidelberg, Australia
Eur J Immunol 34:194-9. 2004..Our findings support the relevance of cross-priming in CD8+ T cell responses to viruses and tumor cells, and demonstrate that cross-priming elicits CD8+ T cells to determinants generated by the endogenous processing pathway...
Comparative immunopeptidomics of humans and their pathogensSorin Istrail
Celera Genomics, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:13268-72. 2004....
Expression of the 1918 influenza A virus PB1-F2 enhances the pathogenesis of viral and secondary bacterial pneumoniaJulie L McAuley
Department of Infectious Diseases, St Jude Children s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
Cell Host Microbe 2:240-9. 2007..These findings help explain both the unparalleled virulence of the 1918 strain and the high incidence of fatal pneumonia during the pandemic...
T cells bite the hand that feeds themDavid C Tscharke
Nat Med 9:647-8. 2003
Visualizing priming of virus-specific CD8+ T cells by infected dendritic cells in vivoChristopher C Norbury
Present address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
Nat Immunol 3:265-71. 2002..These data provide direct evidence that virus-infected APCs prime naïve CD8+ T cells in vivo...
Self-reporting peptides illuminate the MHC grooveJonathan W Yewdell
Nat Chem Biol 3:201-2. 2007
Cutting edge: MHC class I-Ly49 interaction regulates neuronal functionOfer Zohar
Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute, Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
J Immunol 180:6447-51. 2008..Because we show that Ly49 genes are selectively expressed in the adult brain, these findings suggest an unsuspected role for the MHC-I-Ly49 interaction in the development and function of the brain...
Recycling CD1d1 molecules present endogenous antigens processed in an endocytic compartment to NKT cellsTonya J Roberts
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine and Walther Oncology Center, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
J Immunol 168:5409-14. 2002..These results suggest that the loading of a subset of glycolipid ligands onto CD1d1 molecules entails the delivery of cell surface CD1d1 molecules and an acidic environment in the endocytic pathway...
The latest killer APMargarita Del Val
Nat Immunol 4:1049-50. 2003
Dissection of the interaction of the human cytomegalovirus-derived US2 protein with major histocompatibility complex class I molecules: prominent role of a single arginine residue in human leukocyte antigen-A2Claudia Thilo
Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, S-141 86 Stockholm, Sweden
J Biol Chem 281:8950-7. 2006..However, although the presence of Arg181 seems to be a prerequisite for US2 binding to HLA-A2, it is not sufficient for binding to all MHC class I alleles...
Comment on "Large-scale sequence analysis of avian influenza isolates"Edward C Holmes
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, Mueller Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Science 313:1573; author reply 1573. 2006..However, we show that this observation is likely to be an artifact related to the location of PB1-F2 in the +1 reading frame of the PB1 gene...
Reversal in the immunodominance hierarchy in secondary CD8+ T cell responses to influenza A virus: roles for cross-presentation and lysis-independent immunodominationWeisan Chen
T Cell Laboratory, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
J Immunol 173:5021-7. 2004..We further show that immunodomination of PA(224-233)-specific TCD8+ by nucleoprotein 366-374-specific TCD8+ plays a critical role in the phenomena, and that this is unlikely to be mediated by TCD8+ lysis of APCs or other cells...
