Pathogen at the gates: human cytomegalovirus entry and cell tropism

CC Nguyen, JP Kamil - Viruses, 2018 - mdpi.com
The past few years have brought substantial progress toward understanding how human
cytomegalovirus (HCMV) enters the remarkably wide spectrum of cell types and tissues that …

Programming cytomegalovirus as an HIV vaccine

LJ Picker, JD Lifson, M Gale, SG Hansen, K Früh - Trends in immunology, 2023 - cell.com
The initial development of cytomegalovirus (CMV) as a vaccine vector for HIV/simian
immunodeficiency virus (SIV) was predicated on its potential to pre-position high-frequency …

New therapies for human cytomegalovirus infections

WJ Britt, MN Prichard - Antiviral research, 2018 - Elsevier
The recent approval of letermovir marks a new era of therapy for human cytomegalovirus
(HCMV) infections, particularly for the prevention of HCMV disease in hematopoietic stem …

CMV immune evasion and manipulation of the immune system with aging

SE Jackson, A Redeker, R Arens, D van Baarle… - Geroscience, 2017 - Springer
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) encodes numerous proteins and microRNAs that function
to evade the immune response and allow the virus to replicate and disseminate in the face …

[HTML][HTML] Cytomegalovirus-vaccine-induced unconventional T cell priming and control of SIV replication is conserved between primate species

D Malouli, RM Gilbride, HL Wu, JM Hwang, N Maier… - Cell host & …, 2022 - cell.com
Strain 68-1 rhesus cytomegalovirus expressing simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)
antigens (RhCMV/SIV) primes MHC-E-restricted CD8+ T cells that control SIV replication in …

Modulation of MHC-E transport by viral decoy ligands is required for RhCMV/SIV vaccine efficacy

MC Verweij, SG Hansen, R Iyer, N John, D Malouli… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Strain 68-1 rhesus cytomegalovirus (RhCMV) vaccine vectors expressing
simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) antigens elicit immune responses that stringently …

Herpesvirus evasion of natural killer cells

S De Pelsmaeker, N Romero, M Vitale… - Journal of …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Natural killer (NK) cells play an important role in the host response against viral infections
and cancer development. They are able to kill virus-infected and tumor cells, and they …

Subversion of immune response by human cytomegalovirus

ARK Patro - Frontiers in Immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is the most common cause of congenital infections and is
an important pathogen in immunocompromised individuals. Despite a robust host immune …

Suppression of costimulation by human cytomegalovirus promotes evasion of cellular immune defenses

ECY Wang, M Pjechova… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
CD58 is an adhesion molecule that is known to play a critical role in costimulation of effector
cells and is intrinsic to immune synapse structure. Herein, we describe a virally encoded …

Rhesus monkeys for a nonhuman primate model of cytomegalovirus infections

HL Itell, A Kaur, JD Deere, PA Barry… - Current opinion in virology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Nonhuman primate (NHP) CMVs are most closely related to human CMV
(HCMV).•Rhesus CMV (RhCMV) bears numerous genomic and functional similarities to …