Publications

Highlights:

From Albanese , Chen, Gapp, et al., Cell Reports Medicine 2024, Volume 5, Issue 4, 16 April 2024, 101483.

List of selected publications:

• Autoantibody-enhanced, CD32-driven trogocytosis creates functional plasticity of immune cells and is hijacked by HIV-1 to infect resting CD4 T cells.
  Albanese M, Chen HR, Gapp M, Muenchhoff M, Yang H-H, Peterhoff D, Hoffmann K, Xiao Q, Ruhle A, Ambiel I, Schneider S, Mejías-Pérez E, Stern M, Wratil PR, Hofmann K, Amann L, Jocham L, Fuchs T, Ulivi AF, Besson-Girard S, Weidlich S, Schneider J, Spinner C, Sutter K, Dittmer U, Humpe A, Baumeister P, Wieser A, Rothenfusser S, Bogner J, Roider J, Knolle P, Hengel H, Wagner R, Laketa V, Fackler O, Keppler O.
  Cell Reports Medicine 2024, Volume 5, Issue 4, 16 April 2024, 101483.

• Strategies of Epstein-Barr virus to evade innate antiviral immunity of its human host.
  Albanese M, Tagawa T, and Hammerschmidt W.
  Frontiers in Microbiology 2022. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2022.955603

• Rapid, efficient and activation-neutral gene editing of polyclonal primary human resting CD4+ T cells allows complex functional analyses.
  Albanese M#, Ruhle A, Mittermaier J, Mejías-Pérez E, Gapp M, Linder A, Schmacke NA, Hofmann K, Hennrich AA, Levy DN, Humpe A, Conzelmann KK, Hornung V, Fackler OT, Keppler OT#.
  Nature Methods 2022. doi: 10.1038/s41592-021-01328-8.

• Three exposures to the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 by either infection or vaccination elicit superior neutralizing immunity to all variants of concern.
  Wratil PR, Stern M, Priller A, Willmann A, Almanzar G, Vogel E, Feuerherd M, Cheng CC, Yazici S, Christa C, Jeske S, Lupoli G, Vogt T, Albanese M, Mejías-Pérez E, Bauernfried S, Graf N, Mijocevic H, Vu M, Tinnefeld K, Wettengel J, Hoffmann D, Muenchhoff M, Daechert C, Mairhofer H, Krebs S, Fingerle V, Graf A, Steininger P, Blum H, Hornung V, Liebl B, Überla K, Prelog M, Knolle P, Keppler OT, Protzer U.
  Nature Medicine 2022. doi: 10.1038/s41591-022-01715-4.

• LFA1 and ICAM1 are critical for fusion and spread of murine leukemia virus in vivo.
  Engels M, Falk L, Albanese M, Keppler OT, Sewald X.
  Cell Reports 2022. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2021.110279.

• MicroRNAs are minor constituents of extracellular vesicles that are rarely delivered to target cells.
  Albanese M#, Chen YA, Hüls C, Gärtner K, Tagawa T, Mejias-Perez E, Keppler O, Göbel C, Zeidler R, Shein M, Schütz A, Hammerschmidt W#. PLoS Genetics 2021. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009951.

• Highly efficient CRISPR-Cas9-mediated gene knockout in primary human B cells for functional genetic studies of Epstein-Barr virus infection.
  Akidil E, Albanese M, Buschle A, Ruhle A, Keppler OT, Hammerschmidt W.
  PLoS Pathog. 2021. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009117.

• microRNAs of Epstein-Barr virus control innate and adaptive anti-viral immunity.
  Albanese M, Tagawa T, Buschle A and Hammerschmidt W.
  Journal of Virology 2017. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01667-16.

• Epstein-Barr virus miRNAs mediate escape from CD8+ T cell recognition.
  Albanese M, Tagawa T, Bouvet M, Lutter D, Hoser J, Hastreiter M, Hayes M, Sugden B, Martin LK, Moosmann A, and Hammerschmidt W.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 2016. doi:10.1073/pnas.1605884113.

• Epstein-Barr Viral miRNAs inhibit antiviral CD4+ T cell responses targeting IL-12 and antigen presentation.
  Tagawa T, Albanese M, Bouvet M, Mautner J, Heissmeyer V., Zielinski C., Lutter D., Hoser J., Hastreiter M., Hayes M., Sugden B., Martin L.K., Moosmann A., and Hammerschmidt W.
  The Journal of Experimental Medicine 2016. doi: 10.1084/jem.20160248

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