Cytomegalovirus US2 destroys two components of the MHC class II pathway, preventing recognition by CD4+ T cells

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1039-1043

  Tomazin, Roman ^a   Boname, Jessica ^a   Hedge, Nagendra R ^a   Lewinsohn, David M ^b   Altschuler, Yoram ^c   Jones, Thomas R ^d   Cresswell, Peter ^e   Nelson, Jay A ^a   Riddell, Stanley R ^f   Johnson, David C ^a,g  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PFIZER INC   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GLIA CELL; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; MACROPHAGE; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; GENETIC VECTORS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HLA-D ANTIGENS; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; PRECIPITIN TESTS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; VIRUS LATENCY;

EID: 0032863467     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/12478     Document Type: Article

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