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Mitchell MM, Leng Y, Boppana S, Britt WJ, Gutierrez Sanchez LH, Elledge SJ. Signatures of AAV-2 immunity are enriched in children with severe acute hepatitis of unknown etiology. Sci Transl Med. 2023 Jul 26;15(706):eadh9917. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adh9917. Epub 2023 Jul 26. PubMed PMID: 37494473; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10501808.
Qin K, Honjo K, Sherrill-Mix S, Liu W, Stoltz RM, Oman AK, Hall LA, Li R, Sterrett S, Frederick ER, Lancaster JR, Narkhede M, Mehta A, Ogunsile FJ, Patel RB, Ketas TJ, Cruz Portillo VM, Cupo A, Larimer BM, Bansal A, Goepfert PA, Hahn BH, Davis RS. Exposure of progressive immune dysfunction by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia: A prospective cohort study. PLoS Med. 2023 Jun;20(6):e1004157. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004157. eCollection 2023 Jun. PubMed PMID: 37384638; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10309642.
Singh S, Sharma A, Rahman MM, Kasniya G, Maheshwari A, Boppana SB. Congenital and Perinatal Varicella Infections. Newborn (Clarksville). 2022 Jul-Sep;1(3):278-286. doi: 10.5005/jp-journals-11002-0040. Epub 2022 Oct 7. PubMed PMID: 36540194; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9762609.
Moulden J, Sung CYW, Brizic I, Jonjic S, Britt W. Murine Models of Central Nervous System Disease following Congenital Human Cytomegalovirus Infections. Pathogens. 2021 Aug 21;10(8). doi: 10.3390/pathogens10081062. Review. PubMed PMID: 34451526; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8400215.
Reuter N, Kropff B, Schneiderbanger JK, Alt M, Krawczyk A, Sinzger C, Winkler TH, Britt WJ, Mach M, Thomas M. Cell Fusion Induced by a Fusion-Active Form of Human Cytomegalovirus Glycoprotein B (gB) Is Inhibited by Antibodies Directed at Antigenic Domain 5 in the Ectodomain of gB. J Virol. 2020 Aug 31;94(18). doi: 10.1128/JVI.01276-20. Print 2020 Aug 31. PubMed PMID: 32641474; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7459561.
Hancock MH, Crawford LB, Pham AH, Mitchell J, Struthers HM, Yurochko AD, Caposio P, Nelson JA. Human Cytomegalovirus miRNAs Regulate TGF-β to Mediate Myelosuppression while Maintaining Viral Latency in CD34(+) Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells. Cell Host Microbe. 2020 Jan 8;27(1):104-114.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2019.11.013. Epub 2019 Dec 19. PubMed PMID: 31866424; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6952548.
Sung CYW, Seleme MC, Payne S, Jonjic S, Hirose K, Britt W. Virus-induced cochlear inflammation in newborn mice alters auditory function. JCI Insight. 2019 Sep 5;4(17). doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.128878. PubMed PMID: 31484824; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6777914.
Dennis EA, Smythies LE, Grabski R, Li M, Ballestas ME, Shimamura M, Sun JJ, Grams J, Stahl R, Niederweis ME, Britt WJ, Smith PD. Cytomegalovirus promotes intestinal macrophage-mediated mucosal inflammation through induction of Smad7. Mucosal Immunol. 2018 Nov;11(6):1694-1704. doi: 10.1038/s41385-018-0041-4. Epub 2018 Aug 3. PubMed PMID: 30076393; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7405939.
Brizić I, Lisnić B, Brune W, Hengel H, Jonjić S. Cytomegalovirus Infection: Mouse Model. Curr Protoc Immunol. 2018 Aug;122(1):e51. doi: 10.1002/cpim.51. Epub 2018 Jul 25. PubMed PMID: 30044539; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6347558.
Brizić I, Šušak B, Arapović M, Huszthy PC, Hiršl L, Kveštak D, Juranić Lisnić V, Golemac M, Pernjak Pugel E, Tomac J, Oxenius A, Britt WJ, Arapović J, Krmpotić A, Jonjić S. Brain-resident memory CD8(+) T cells induced by congenital CMV infection prevent brain pathology and virus reactivation. Eur J Immunol. 2018 Jun;48(6):950-964. doi: 10.1002/eji.201847526. Epub 2018 Mar 23. PubMed PMID: 29500823; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6422351.
Yang B, Liu XJ, Yao Y, Jiang X, Wang XZ, Yang H, Sun JY, Miao Y, Wang W, Huang ZL, Wang Y, Tang Q, Rayner S, Britt WJ, McVoy MA, Luo MH, Zhao F. WDR5 Facilitates Human Cytomegalovirus Replication by Promoting Capsid Nuclear Egress. J Virol. 2018 May 1;92(9). doi: 10.1128/JVI.00207-18. Print 2018 May 1. PubMed PMID: 29437978; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5899187.
Britt WJ. Adverse outcomes of pregnancy-associated Zika virus infection. Semin Perinatol. 2018 Apr;42(3):155-167. doi: 10.1053/j.semperi.2018.02.003. Epub 2018 Mar 6. Review. PubMed PMID: 29523447; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7442220.
Milbradt J, Sonntag E, Wagner S, Strojan H, Wangen C, Lenac Rovis T, Lisnic B, Jonjic S, Sticht H, Britt WJ, Schlötzer-Schrehardt U, Marschall M. Human Cytomegalovirus Nuclear Capsids Associate with the Core Nuclear Egress Complex and the Viral Protein Kinase pUL97. Viruses. 2018 Jan 13;10(1). doi: 10.3390/v10010035. PubMed PMID: 29342872; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5795448.
Britt WJ. Congenital Human Cytomegalovirus Infection and the Enigma of Maternal Immunity. J Virol. 2017 Aug 1;91(15). doi: 10.1128/JVI.02392-16. Print 2017 Aug 1. Review. PubMed PMID: 28490582; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5512250.
Tršan T, Vuković K, Filipović P, Brizić AL, Lemmermann NAW, Schober K, Busch DH, Britt WJ, Messerle M, Krmpotić A, Jonjić S. Cytomegalovirus vector expressing RAE-1γ induces enhanced anti-tumor capacity of murine CD8(+) T cells. Eur J Immunol. 2017 Aug;47(8):1354-1367. doi: 10.1002/eji.201746964. Epub 2017 Jul 4. PubMed PMID: 28612942; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5672794.
Seleme MC, Kosmac K, Jonjic S, Britt WJ. Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha-Induced Recruitment of Inflammatory Mononuclear Cells Leads to Inflammation and Altered Brain Development in Murine Cytomegalovirus-Infected Newborn Mice. J Virol. 2017 Apr 15;91(8). doi: 10.1128/JVI.01983-16. Print 2017 Apr 15. PubMed PMID: 28122986; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5375689.
Pokalyuk C, Renzette N, Irwin KK, Pfeifer SP, Gibson L, Britt WJ, Yamamoto AY, Mussi-Pinhata MM, Kowalik TF, Jensen JD. Characterizing human cytomegalovirus reinfection in congenitally infected infants: an evolutionary perspective. Mol Ecol. 2017 Apr;26(7):1980-1990. doi: 10.1111/mec.13953. Epub 2017 Feb 8. PubMed PMID: 27988973.
Rieder FJJ, Kastner MT, Hartl M, Puchinger MG, Schneider M, Majdic O, Britt WJ, Djinović-Carugo K, Steininger C. Human cytomegalovirus phosphoproteins are hypophosphorylated and intrinsically disordered. J Gen Virol. 2017 Mar;98(3):471-485. doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.000675. Epub 2017 Apr 1. PubMed PMID: 27959783; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5705059.
Pan X, Li XJ, Liu XJ, Yuan H, Li JF, Duan YL, Ye HQ, Fu YR, Qiao GH, Wu CC, Yang B, Tian XH, Hu KH, Miao LF, Chen XL, Zheng J, Rayner S, Schwartz PH, Britt WJ, Xu J, Luo MH. Correction for Pan et al., Later Passages of Neural Progenitor Cells from Neonatal Brain Are More Permissive for Human Cytomegalovirus Infection. J Virol. 2016 Nov 15;90(22):10431-10433. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01780-16. Print 2016 Nov 15. PubMed PMID: 27794070; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5105676.
Rebmann GM, Grabski R, Sanchez V, Britt WJ. Phosphorylation of Golgi Peripheral Membrane Protein Grasp65 Is an Integral Step in the Formation of the Human Cytomegalovirus Cytoplasmic Assembly Compartment. mBio. 2016 Oct 4;7(5). doi: 10.1128/mBio.01554-16. PubMed PMID: 27703074; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5050342.
Seo JY, Jeon H, Hong S, Britt WJ. Distinct functional domains within the acidic cluster of tegument protein pp28 required for trafficking and cytoplasmic envelopment of human cytomegalovirus. J Gen Virol. 2016 Oct;97(10):2677-2683. doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.000565. Epub 2016 Jul 22. PubMed PMID: 27450273; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5078830.
Rieder FJ, Biebl J, Kastner MT, Schneider M, Jungbauer C, Redlberger-Fritz M, Britt WJ, Kundi M, Steininger C. Microbial Cryptotopes are Prominent Targets of B-cell Immunity. Sci Rep. 2016 Aug 19;6:31657. doi: 10.1038/srep31657. PubMed PMID: 27539094; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4990913.
Pinninti SG, Rodgers MD, Novak Z, Britt WJ, Fowler KB, Boppana SB, Ross SA. Clinical Predictors of Sensorineural Hearing Loss and Cognitive Outcome in Infants with Symptomatic Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2016 Aug;35(8):924-6. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000001194. PubMed PMID: 27195603; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4979986.
Renzette N, Kowalik TF, Jensen JD. On the relative roles of background selection and genetic hitchhiking in shaping human cytomegalovirus genetic diversity. Mol Ecol. 2016 Jan;25(1):403-13. doi: 10.1111/mec.13331. Epub 2015 Sep 3. PubMed PMID: 26211679; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4706826.
Chiuppesi F, Wussow F, Johnson E, Bian C, Zhuo M, Rajakumar A, Barry PA, Britt WJ, Chakraborty R, Diamond DJ. Vaccine-Derived Neutralizing Antibodies to the Human Cytomegalovirus gH/gL Pentamer Potently Block Primary Cytotrophoblast Infection. J Virol. 2015 Dec;89(23):11884-98. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01701-15. Epub 2015 Sep 16. PubMed PMID: 26378171; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4645301.
Renzette N, Pokalyuk C, Gibson L, Bhattacharjee B, Schleiss MR, Hamprecht K, Yamamoto AY, Mussi-Pinhata MM, Britt WJ, Jensen JD, Kowalik TF. Limits and patterns of cytomegalovirus genomic diversity in humans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Jul 28;112(30):E4120-8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1501880112. Epub 2015 Jul 6. PubMed PMID: 26150505; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4522815.
Li XJ, Liu XJ, Yang B, Fu YR, Zhao F, Shen ZZ, Miao LF, Rayner S, Chavanas S, Zhu H, Britt WJ, Tang Q, McVoy MA, Luo MH. Human Cytomegalovirus Infection Dysregulates the Localization and Stability of NICD1 and Jag1 in Neural Progenitor Cells. J Virol. 2015 Jul;89(13):6792-804. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00351-15. Epub 2015 Apr 22. PubMed PMID: 25903338; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4468470.
Britt W. Controversies in the natural history of congenital human cytomegalovirus infection: the paradox of infection and disease in offspring of women with immunity prior to pregnancy. Med Microbiol Immunol. 2015 Jun;204(3):263-71. doi: 10.1007/s00430-015-0399-9. Epub 2015 Mar 13. Review. PubMed PMID: 25764180.
Bradford RD, Yoo YG, Golemac M, Pugel EP, Jonjic S, Britt WJ. Murine CMV-induced hearing loss is associated with inner ear inflammation and loss of spiral ganglia neurons. PLoS Pathog. 2015 Apr;11(4):e1004774. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004774. eCollection 2015 Apr. PubMed PMID: 25875183; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4395355.
Li G, Nguyen CC, Ryckman BJ, Britt WJ, Kamil JP. A viral regulator of glycoprotein complexes contributes to human cytomegalovirus cell tropism. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Apr 7;112(14):4471-6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1419875112. Epub 2015 Mar 23. PubMed PMID: 25831500; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4394275.
Britt W. Controversies in the natural history of congenital human cytomegalovirus infection: the paradox of infection and disease in offspring of women with immunity prior to pregnancy. 2015 March.
Slavuljica I, Kveštak D, Huszthy PC, Kosmac K, Britt WJ, Jonjić S. Immunobiology of congenital cytomegalovirus infection of the central nervous system—the murine cytomegalovirus model. Cell Mol Immunol. 2015 Mar;12(2):180-91. doi: 10.1038/cmi.2014.51. Epub 2014 Jul 21. Review. PubMed PMID: 25042632; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4654296.
Fu YR, Liu XJ, Li XJ, Shen ZZ, Yang B, Wu CC, Li JF, Miao LF, Ye HQ, Qiao GH, Rayner S, Chavanas S, Davrinche C, Britt WJ, Tang Q, McVoy M, Mocarski E, Luo MH. MicroRNA miR-21 attenuates human cytomegalovirus replication in neural cells by targeting Cdc25a. J Virol. 2015 Jan 15;89(2):1070-82. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01740-14. Epub 2014 Nov 5. PubMed PMID: 25378484; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4300626.
Wiegers AK, Sticht H, Winkler TH, Britt WJ, Mach M. Identification of a neutralizing epitope within antigenic domain 5 of glycoprotein B of human cytomegalovirus. J Virol. 2015 Jan;89(1):361-72. doi: 10.1128/JVI.02393-14. Epub 2014 Oct 15. PubMed PMID: 25320309; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4301166.
Smith PD, Shimamura M, Musgrove LC, Dennis EA, Bimczok D, Novak L, Ballestas M, Fenton A, Dandekar S, Britt WJ, Smythies LE. Cytomegalovirus enhances macrophage TLR expression and MyD88-mediated signal transduction to potentiate inducible inflammatory responses. J Immunol. 2014 Dec 1;193(11):5604-12. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1302608. Epub 2014 Oct 29. PubMed PMID: 25355920; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4239158.
Ross SA, Ahmed A, Palmer AL, Michaels MG, Sánchez PJ, Bernstein DI, Tolan RW Jr, Novak Z, Chowdhury N, Fowler KB, Boppana SB. Detection of congenital cytomegalovirus infection by real-time polymerase chain reaction analysis of saliva or urine specimens. J Infect Dis. 2014 Nov 1;210(9):1415-8. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiu263. Epub 2014 May 5. PubMed PMID: 24799600; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4271051.
Renzette N, Gibson L, Jensen JD, Kowalik TF. Human cytomegalovirus intrahost evolution-a new avenue for understanding and controlling herpesvirus infections. Curr Opin Virol. 2014 Oct;8:109-15. doi: 10.1016/j.coviro.2014.08.001. Epub 2014 Aug 25. Review. PubMed PMID: 25154343; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4195796.
Basu D, Xiao P, Ende Z, Bere A, Britt WJ, Mulenga J, Kilembe W, Allen SA, Derdeyn CA, Hunter E. Low antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity responses in Zambians prior to HIV-1 intrasubtype C superinfection. Virology. 2014 Aug;462-463:295-8. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2014.06.016. Epub 2014 Jul 5. PubMed PMID: 25004405; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4125417.
Hook L, Hancock M, Landais I, Grabski R, Britt W, Nelson JA. Cytomegalovirus microRNAs. Curr Opin Virol. 2014 Aug;7:40-6. doi: 10.1016/j.coviro.2014.03.015. Epub 2014 Apr 23. Review. PubMed PMID: 24769092; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4149926.
Dreher AM, Arora N, Fowler KB, Novak Z, Britt WJ, Boppana SB, Ross SA. Spectrum of disease and outcome in children with symptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus infection. J Pediatr. 2014 Apr;164(4):855-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2013.12.007. Epub 2014 Jan 14. PubMed PMID: 24433826; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3982912.
Hook LM, Grey F, Grabski R, Tirabassi R, Doyle T, Hancock M, Landais I, Jeng S, McWeeney S, Britt W, Nelson JA. Cytomegalovirus miRNAs target secretory pathway genes to facilitate formation of the virion assembly compartment and reduce cytokine secretion. Cell Host Microbe. 2014 Mar 12;15(3):363-73. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2014.02.004. PubMed PMID: 24629342; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4029511.
Boppana SB, Britt WJ. Recent approaches and strategies in the generation of antihuman cytomegalovirus vaccines. Methods Mol Biol. 2014;1119:311-48. doi: 10.1007/978-1-62703-788-4_17. PubMed PMID: 24639230.
Pan X, Li XJ, Liu XJ, Yuan H, Li JF, Duan YL, Ye HQ, Fu YR, Qiao GH, Wu CC, Yang B, Tian XH, Hu KH, Miao LF, Chen XL, Zheng J, Rayner S, Schwartz PH, Britt WJ, Xu J, Luo MH. Later passages of neural progenitor cells from neonatal brain are more permissive for human cytomegalovirus infection. J Virol. 2013 Oct;87(20):10968-79. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01120-13. Epub 2013 Jul 31. PubMed PMID: 23903847; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3807278.
Pati SK, Pinninti S, Novak Z, Chowdhury N, Patro RK, Fowler K, Ross S, Boppana S. Genotypic diversity and mixed infection in newborn disease and hearing loss in congenital cytomegalovirus infection. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2013 Oct;32(10):1050-4. doi: 10.1097/INF.0b013e31829bb0b9. PubMed PMID: 23694837; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3785554.
Dai X, Yu X, Gong H, Jiang X, Abenes G, Liu H, Shivakoti S, Britt WJ, Zhu H, Liu F, Zhou ZH. The smallest capsid protein mediates binding of the essential tegument protein pp150 to stabilize DNA-containing capsids in human cytomegalovirus. PLoS Pathog. 2013 Aug;9(8):e1003525. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003525. Epub 2013 Aug 15. PubMed PMID: 23966856; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3744435.
Knight A, Arnouk H, Britt W, Gillespie GY, Cloud GA, Harkins L, Su Y, Lowdell MW, Lamb LS. CMV-independent lysis of glioblastoma by ex vivo expanded/activated Vδ1+ γδ T cells. PLoS One. 2013;8(8):e68729. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068729. eCollection 2013. PubMed PMID: 23950874; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3737218.
Gardner TJ, Bolovan-Fritts C, Teng MW, Redmann V, Kraus TA, Sperling R, Moran T, Britt W, Weinberger LS, Tortorella D. Development of a high-throughput assay to measure the neutralization capability of anti-cytomegalovirus antibodies. Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2013 Apr;20(4):540-50. doi: 10.1128/CVI.00644-12. Epub 2013 Feb 6. PubMed PMID: 23389931; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3623408.
Kosmac K, Bantug GR, Pugel EP, Cekinovic D, Jonjic S, Britt WJ. Glucocorticoid treatment of MCMV infected newborn mice attenuates CNS inflammation and limits deficits in cerebellar development. PLoS Pathog. 2013 Mar;9(3):e1003200. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003200. Epub 2013 Mar 7. PubMed PMID: 23505367; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3591306.
Shimamura M, Seleme MC, Guo L, Saunders U, Schoeb TR, George JF, Britt WJ. Ganciclovir prophylaxis improves late murine cytomegalovirus-induced renal allograft damage. Transplantation. 2013 Jan 15;95(1):48-53. doi: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3182782efc. PubMed PMID: 23232367; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3700407.
Kropff B, Burkhardt C, Schott J, Nentwich J, Fisch T, Britt W, Mach M. Glycoprotein N of human cytomegalovirus protects the virus from neutralizing antibodies. PLoS Pathog. 2012;8(10):e1002999. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002999. Epub 2012 Oct 25. PubMed PMID: 23133379; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3486915.
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