Reading Lists – Graduate Immunology II

Gail A. Bishop
April 27 and 29, 2004

Review article:

Ploegh, H.L. Viral strategies of immune evasion. Science 280: 248-253, 1998.

April 27

Primary papers:

1) Raftery, M.J., Schwab, M., Eibert, S.M., Samstag, Y., Walczak, H., and Schönrich, G. Targeting the function of mature dendritic cells by human cytomegalovirus: A multilayered viral defense strategy. Immunity 15:997-1009, 2001.

2) Geleziunas, R., Xu, W., Takeda, K., Ichijo, H., and Greene, W.C. HIV-1 Nef inhibits ASK1-dependent death signaling providing a potential mechanism for protecting the infected host cell. Nature 410:834-838, 2001.

April 29

Primary papers:

1) Diamond, M.S., Sitati, E.M., Friend, L.D., Higgs, S., Shrestha, B., and Engle, M. A critical role for induced IgM in the protection against West Nile virus infection. J. Exp. Med. 198:1853-1862, 2003.

2) Crotty, S., Felgner, P., Davies, H., Glidewell, J., Villarreal, L., and Ahmed, R. Cutting Edge: Long-term B cell memory in humans after smallpox vaccination. J. Immunol. 171:4969-4973, 2003.

3) Hammarlund, E., Lewis, M.W., Hansen, S.G., Strelow, L.I., Nelson, J.A., Sexton, G.J., Hanifin, J.M., and Slifka, M.K. Duration of antiviral immunity after smallpox vaccination. Nat. Med. 9:1131-1137, 2003.