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Torsten Däubner

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Subdominant CD8 T-Cell Epitopes Account for Protection against Cytomegalovirus Independent of Immunodomination▿ †

2008

ABSTRACTCytomegalovirus (CMV) infection continues to be a complication in recipients of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Preexisting donor immunity is recognized as a favorable prognostic factor for the reconstitution of protective antiviral immunity mediated primarily by CD8 T cells. Furthermore, adoptive transfer of CMV-specific memory CD8 T (CD8-TM) cells is a therapeutic option for preventing CMV disease in HSCT recipients. Given the different CMV infection histories of donor and recipient, a problem may arise from an antigenic mismatch between the CMV variant that has primed donor immunity and the CMV variant acquired by the recipient. Here, we have used the BALB/c mouse…

Adoptive cell transferMuromegalovirusImmunologyEpitopes T-LymphocyteBiologyCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesMajor histocompatibility complexMicrobiologyVirusEpitopeMiceViral ProteinsAntigenBetaherpesvirinaeVirologyCytotoxic T cellAnimalsCells CulturedMice Inbred BALB CImmunodominant Epitopesvirus diseasesHerpesviridae InfectionsFibroblastsbiology.organism_classificationVirologyAdoptive TransferDisease Models AnimalKineticsInsect ScienceImmunologybiology.proteinPathogenesis and ImmunityFemaleCD8
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CD8 T Cells Control Cytomegalovirus Latency by Epitope-Specific Sensing of Transcriptional Reactivation

2006

ABSTRACT During murine cytomegalovirus (mCMV) latency in the lungs, most of the viral genomes are transcriptionally silent at the major immediate-early locus, but rare and stochastic episodes of desilencing lead to the expression of IE1 transcripts. This low-frequency but perpetual expression is accompanied by an activation of lung-resident effector-memory CD8 T cells specific for the antigenic peptide 168-YPHFMPTNL-176, which is derivedfrom the IE1 protein. These molecular and immunological findings were combined in the “silencing/desilencing and immune sensing hypothesis” of cytomegalovirus latency and reactivation. This hypothesis proposes that IE1 gene expression proceeds to cell surfac…

Transcriptional ActivationMuromegalovirusvirusesImmunologyAntigen presentationCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesVirus ReplicationMajor histocompatibility complexModels BiologicalMicrobiologyEpitopeImmediate-Early ProteinsEpitopesImmunocompromised HostMiceAntigenVirologyMHC class IVirus latencymedicineAnimalsGene silencingCytotoxic T cellAmino Acid SequenceAntigens ViralLungBone Marrow TransplantationMice Inbred BALB CBase Sequencebiologyvirus diseasesHerpesviridae Infectionsbiochemical phenomena metabolism and nutritionmedicine.diseaseVirologyMolecular biologyVirus LatencyVirus-Cell InteractionsPhenotypeAmino Acid SubstitutionInsect ScienceDNA ViralMutagenesis Site-DirectedTrans-Activatorsbiology.proteinFemaleJournal of Virology
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Immune evasion proteins of murine cytomegalovirus preferentially affect cell surface display of recently generated peptide presentation complexes.

2009

CD8 T cells recognize infected cells by interaction of their T-cell receptor (TCR) with a cell surface presentation complex composed of a cognate antigenic peptide bound to a presenting allelic form of a major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC-I) glycoprotein (77, 85, 97, 98). The number of such “peptide receptors” per cell has been estimated to be on the order of 105 to 106 for each MHC-I allomorph (for a review, see reference 82). Viral antigenic peptides are generated within infected cells by proteolytic processing of viral proteins, usually in the proteasome, and associate with nascent MHC-I proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) before the peptide-MHC (pMHC) complexes travel …

Chromosomes Artificial BacterialMuromegalovirusImmunologyAntigen presentationchemical and pharmacologic phenomenaBiologyMajor histocompatibility complexMicrobiologyEpitopeMiceViral ProteinsAntigenVirologyCytotoxic T cellAnimalsCells CulturedDNA PrimersImmune EvasionBase SequenceAntigen processingT-cell receptorHistocompatibility Antigens Class IVirologyMice Inbred C57BLMutagenesisInsect Sciencebiology.proteinPathogenesis and ImmunityPeptidesCD8Journal of virology
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Transactivation of cellular genes involved in nucleotide metabolism by the regulatory IE1 protein of murine cytomegalovirus is not critical for viral…

2008

ABSTRACT Despite its high coding capacity, murine CMV (mCMV) does not encode functional enzymes for nucleotide biosynthesis. It thus depends on cellular enzymes, such as ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) and thymidylate synthase (TS), to be supplied with deoxynucleoside triphosphates (dNTPs) for its DNA replication. Viral transactivation of these cellular genes in quiescent cells of host tissues is therefore a parameter of viral fitness relevant to pathogenicity. Previous work has shown that the IE1, but not the IE3, protein of mCMV transactivates RNR and TS gene promoters and has revealed an in vivo attenuation of the mutant virus mCMV-ΔIE1. It was attractive to propose the hypothesis that la…

Transcriptional ActivationMuromegalovirusvirusesImmunologyMutantMolecular Sequence DataBiologyVirus ReplicationMicrobiologyImmediate-Early ProteinsTransactivationMiceVirologyAnimalsPoint MutationAmino Acid SequencePromoter Regions GeneticGeneCells CulturedRegulation of gene expressionMice Inbred BALB CBase SequenceNucleotidesDNA replicationvirus diseasesTransfectionbiochemical phenomena metabolism and nutritionFibroblastsMolecular biologyGenome Replication and Regulation of Viral Gene ExpressionRibonucleotide reductaseViral replicationGene Expression RegulationLiverInsect ScienceNIH 3T3 CellsPeptidesSequence AlignmentJournal of virology
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A novel transmembrane domain mediating retention of a highly motile herpesvirus glycoprotein in the endoplasmic reticulum

2010

Gene m164 of murine cytomegalovirus belongs to the large group of 'private' genes that show no homology to those of other cytomegalovirus species and are thought to represent 'host adaptation' genes involved in virus-host interaction. Previous interest in the m164 gene product was based on the presence of an immunodominant CD8 T-cell epitope presented at the surface of infected cells, despite interference by viral immune-evasion proteins. Here, we provide data to reveal that the m164 gene product shows unusual features in its cell biology. A novel strategy of mass-spectrometric analysis was employed to map the N terminus of the mature protein, 107 aa downstream of the start site of the pred…

MuromegalovirusKKXXEndoplasmic reticulumMembrane ProteinsER retentionSTIM1Protein Sorting SignalsBiologyEndoplasmic ReticulumMass SpectrometryTransmembrane proteinCell biologyTransport proteinMolecular WeightGene productOpen Reading FramesProtein TransportViral ProteinsTransmembrane domainBiochemistryVirologyCOS CellsChlorocebus aethiopsAnimalsGlycoproteinsJournal of General Virology
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