[HTML][HTML] Hendra and Nipah viruses: different and dangerous

BT Eaton, CC Broder, D Middleton… - Nature Reviews …, 2006 - nature.com
Hendra virus and Nipah virus are highly pathogenic paramyxoviruses that have recently
emerged from flying foxes to cause serious disease outbreaks in humans and livestock in …

Measles virus, immune control, and persistence

DE Griffin, WH Lin, CH Pan - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Measles remains one of the most important causes of child morbidity and mortality
worldwide with the greatest burden in the youngest children. Most acute measles deaths are …

Rescue of measles viruses from cloned DNA.

F Radecke, P Spielhofer, H Schneider, K Kaelin… - The EMBO …, 1995 - embopress.org
A system has been established allowing the rescue of replicating measles viruses (MVs)
from cloned DNA. On one hand, plasmids were constructed from which MV antigenomic …

Biased hypermutation and other genetic changes in defective measles viruses in human brain infections

R Cattaneo, A Schmid, D Eschle, K Baczko… - Cell, 1988 - cell.com
We assessed the alterations of viral gene expression occurring during persistent infections
by cloning fulllength transcripts of measles virus (MV) genes from brain autopsies of two …

Measles virus editing provides an additional cysteine-rich protein

R Cattaneo, K Kaelin, K Baczko, MA Billeter - Cell, 1989 - cell.com
The measles virus (MV) phosphoprotein(P) gene encodes two known proteins, P (M,=
70,000), involved in viral transcription, and, in a different reading frame, c (M,^ 20,000). By a …

Measles virus spread and pathogenesis in genetically modified mice

B Mrkic, J Pavlovic, T Rülicke, P Volpe… - Journal of …, 1998 - Am Soc Microbiol
Attenuated Edmonston measles virus (MV-Edm) is not pathogenic in standard mice. We
show here that MV-Edm inoculated via the natural respiratory route has a limited …

[HTML][HTML] A matrix‐less measles virus is infectious and elicits extensive cell fusion: consequences for propagation in the brain

T Cathomen, B Mrkic, D Spehner, R Drillien… - The EMBO …, 1998 - embopress.org
Measles viruses (MV) can be isolated from the brains of deceased subacute sclerosing
panencephalitis patients only in a cell‐associated form. These viruses are often defective in …

[HTML][HTML] In Vivo Ligands of MDA5 and RIG-I in Measles Virus-Infected Cells

S Runge, KMJ Sparrer, C Lässig, K Hembach… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
RIG-I-like receptors (RLRs: RIG-I, MDA5 and LGP2) play a major role in the innate immune
response against viral infections and detect patterns on viral RNA molecules that are …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted cell entry of lentiviral vectors

S Funke, A Maisner, MD Mühlebach, U Koehl, M Grez… - Molecular Therapy, 2008 - cell.com
Retargeting of lentiviral vector entry to cell types of interest is a key factor in improving the
safety and efficacy of gene transfer. In this study we show that the retargetable envelope …

Tropism illuminated: lymphocyte-based pathways blazed by lethal morbillivirus through the host immune system

V Von Messling, D Milosevic… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
The immunosuppressive properties of morbilliviruses including measles and canine
distemper virus (CDV) are well known, but the host cells supporting infection are poorly …