CD8+ T cell contraction is controlled by early inflammation

VP Badovinac, BB Porter, JT Harty - Nature immunology, 2004 - nature.com
Pathogen-specific CD8+ T cells expand in number after infection and then their numbers
invariably contract by 90–95%, leaving a stable memory cell pool. The chief features of this …

Anthrolysin O and other gram-positive cytolysins are toll-like receptor 4 agonists

JM Park, VH Ng, S Maeda, RF Rest… - The Journal of …, 2004 - rupress.org
Exposure of bone marrow–derived macrophages (BMDMs) to low concentrations of Bacillus
anthracis lethal toxin (LT), whose catalytic subunit is lethal factor (LF), results in induction of …

Neutrophil involvement in cross-priming CD8+ T cell responses to bacterial antigens

AR Tvinnereim, SE Hamilton, JT Harty - The Journal of Immunology, 2004 - journals.aai.org
Substantial CD8+ T cell responses are generated after infection of mice with recombinant
Listeria monocytogenes strains expressing a model epitope (lymphocytic choriomeningitis …

Growth, Virulence, and Immunogenicity of Listeria monocytogenes aro Mutants

J Stritzker, J Janda, C Schoen, M Taupp… - Infection and …, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
Mutants of Listeria monocytogenes with deletions in genes of the common branch of the
biosynthesis pathway leading to aromatic compounds were constructed as possible …

A structure-based approach for prediction of MHC-binding peptides

Y Altuvia, H Margalit - Methods, 2004 - Elsevier
Identification of immunodominant peptides is the first step in the rational design of peptide
vaccines aimed at T-cell immunity. The advances in sequencing techniques and the …

Increased dendritic cell numbers impair protective immunity to intracellular bacteria despite augmenting antigen-specific CD8+ T lymphocyte responses

RC Alaniz, S Sandall, EK Thomas… - The Journal of …, 2004 - journals.aai.org
Dendritic cells (DCs) reside in tissues, where they function as sentinels, providing an
essential link between innate and adaptive immunity. Increasing the numbers of DCs in vivo …

Oral Immunization with Recombinant Listeria monocytogenes Controls Virus Load after Vaginal Challenge with Feline Immunodeficiency Virus

R Stevens, KE Howard, S Nordone… - Journal of …, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
Recombinant Listeria monocytogenes has many attractive characteristics as a vaccine
vector against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Wild-type and attenuated Listeria …

Identification of a naturally processed cyclin D1 T‐helper epitope by a novel combination of HLA class II targeting and differential mass spectrometry

J Dengjel, P Decker, O Schoor… - European journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
T‐helper (Th) cells play an important role in orchestrating the effector function of CTL in anti‐
tumor immunity. However, only a limited number of Th cell epitopes has been characterized …

[HTML][HTML] Improved protection conferred by vaccination with a recombinant vaccinia virus that incorporates a foreign antigen into the extracellular enveloped virion

H Kwak, W Mustafa, K Speirs, AJ Abdool, Y Paterson… - Virology, 2004 - Elsevier
Recombinant poxviruses have shown promise as vaccine vectors. We hypothesized that
improved cellular immune responses could be developed to a foreign antigen by …

Utilizing modular neural networks to predict MHC class II-binding peptides

A Zeng, QL Zheng, D Pan… - 2004 IEEE International …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to minimize the number of peptides required to be synthesized and to advance the
understanding for the immune response, some researchers have applied the models based …