Required Reading:

van Kooyk Y, Geijtenbeek TB. DC-SIGN: escape mechanism for pathogens. Nat. Rev. Immunol. 2003 Sep;3(9):697-709. Review.

Cohen GB, Gandhi RT, Davis DM, Mandelboim O, Chen BK, Strominger JL, Baltimore D. The selective downregulation of class I major histocompatibility complex proteins by HIV-1 protects HIV-infected cells from NK cells. Immunity. 1999 Jun;10(6):661-71.

Geijtenbeek TB, Kwon DS, Torensma R, van Vliet SJ, van Duijnhoven GC, Middel J, Cornelissen IL, Nottet HS, KewalRamani VN, Littman DR, Figdor CG, van Kooyk Y. DC-SIGN, a dendritic cell-specific HIV-1-binding protein that enhances trans-infection of T cells. Cell. 2000 Mar 3;100(5):587-97.

Highly Recommended Reading:

Steinman RM, Nussenzweig MC. Avoiding horror autotoxicus: the importance of dendritic cells in peripheral T cell tolerance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Jan 8;99(1):351-8. Review.

Tortorella D. Gewurz BE. Furman MH. Schust DJ. Ploegh HL. Viral subversion of the immune system. Annual Review of Immunology. 18:861-926, 2000.