Burkhard Ludewig

Lack of conventional dendritic cells is compatible with normal development and T cell homeostasis, but causes myeloid proliferative syndrome. (2008)

Birnberg, Tal, Bar-On, Liat, Sapoznikov, Anita, Caton, Michele L., Cervantes-Barragán, Luisa, Makia, Divine, ...

Dendritic cells are critically involved in the promotion and regulation of Tcell responses. Here, we report a mouse strain that lacks conventional CD11chi dendritic cells (cDCs) because of...

Coronavirus Non-Structural Protein 1 Is a Major Pathogenicity Factor: Implications for the Rational Design of Coronavirus Vaccines (2007)

Roland Züst, Luisa Cervantes-Barragán, Thomas Kuri, Gjon Blakqori, Friedemann Weber, Burkhard Ludewig, ...

Attenuated viral vaccines can be generated by targeting essential pathogenicity factors. We report here the rational design of an attenuated recombinant coronavirus vaccine based on a deletion in the...

Towards a Coronavirus-Based HIV Multigene Vaccine (2006)

Klara K. Eriksson, Divine Makia, Reinhard Maier, Burkhard Ludewig, Volker Thiel

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection represents one of the major health threats in the developing world. The costly treatment of infected individuals with multiple highly efficient anti-HIV...

Towards a Coronavirus-Based HIV Multigene Vaccine (2006)

Klara K. Eriksson, Divine Makia, Reinhard Maier, Burkhard Ludewig, Volker Thiel

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection represents one of the major health threats in the developing world. The costly treatment of infected individuals with multiple highly efficient anti-HIV...

Immunopathological Basis of Virus-induced Myocarditis (2004)

Reinhard Maier, Philippe Krebs, Burkhard Ludewig

Heart diseases are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in industrialized countries. Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), one of the most common heart diseases, may be the consequence of...

Immunopathological Basis of Virus-induced Myocarditis (2004)

Reinhard Maier, Philippe Krebs, Burkhard Ludewig

Heart diseases are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in industrialized countries. Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), one of the most common heart diseases, may be the consequence of...

Linking immune-mediated arterial inflammation and cholesterol-induced atherosclerosis in a transgenic mouse model

Ludewig, Burkhard, Freigang, Stefan, Jäggi, Martin, Kurrer, Michael O., Pei, Yao-Chang, Vlk, Lenka, ...

Arterial inflammatory responses are thought to be a significant component of atherosclerotic disease. We describe here, using a transgenic approach, the mutual perpetuation of immune-mediated...

Immune surveillance against a solid tumor fails because of immunological ignorance

Ochsenbein, Adrian F., Klenerman, Paul, Karrer, Urs, Ludewig, Burkhard, Pericin, Marcus, Hengartner, Hans, ...

Many peripheral solid tumors such as sarcomas and carcinomas express tumor-specific antigens that can serve as targets for immune effector T cells. Nevertheless, overall immune surveillance against...

Dendritic Cells Efficiently Induce Protective Antiviral Immunity

Ludewig, Burkhard, Ehl, Stephan, Karrer, Urs, Odermatt, Bernhard, Hengartner, Hans, Zinkernagel, Rolf M.

Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) are essential for effective immunity to various viral infections. Because of the high speed of viral replication, control of viral infections imposes demanding...

Underwhelming the Immune Response: Effect of Slow Virus Growth on CD8+-T-Lymphocyte Responses

Bocharov, Gennady, Ludewig, Burkhard, Bertoletti, Antonio, Klenerman, Paul, Junt, Tobias, Krebs, Philippe, ...

The speed of virus replication has typically been seen as an advantage for a virus in overcoming the ability of the immune system to control its population growth. Under some circumstances, the...

Cinanserin Is an Inhibitor of the 3C-Like Proteinase of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus and Strongly Reduces Virus Replication In Vitro†

Chen, Lili, Gui, Chunshan, Luo, Xiaomin, Yang, Qingang, Günther, Stephan, Scandella, Elke, ...

The 3C-like proteinase (3CLpro) of severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) is one of the most promising targets for anti-SARS-CoV drugs due to its crucial role in the...

Selective Replication of Coronavirus Genomes That Express Nucleocapsid Protein

Schelle, Barbara, Karl, Nadja, Ludewig, Burkhard, Siddell, Stuart G., Thiel, Volker

The coronavirus nucleocapsid (N) protein is a structural protein that forms a ribonucleoprotein complex with genomic RNA. In addition to its structural role, it has been described as an RNA-binding...

Microchimerism maintains deletion of the donor cell–specific CD8+ T cell repertoire

Bonilla, Weldy V., Geuking, Markus B., Aichele, Peter, Ludewig, Burkhard, Hengartner, Hans, Zinkernagel, Rolf M.

Rare cases of stable allograft acceptance after discontinuation of immunosuppression are often accompanied by macrochimerism (> 1% donor cells in blood) or microchimerism (< 1% donor cells in blood)....

Coronavirus Non-Structural Protein 1 Is a Major Pathogenicity Factor: Implications for the Rational Design of Coronavirus Vaccines

Züst, Roland, Cervantes-Barragán, Luisa, Kuri, Thomas, Blakqori, Gjon, Weber, Friedemann, Ludewig, Burkhard, ...

Attenuated viral vaccines can be generated by targeting essential pathogenicity factors. We report here the rational design of an attenuated recombinant coronavirus vaccine based on a deletion in the...

Molecular Characterization of Virus-induced Autoantibody Responses

Ludewig, Burkhard, Krebs, Philippe, Metters, Helen, Tatzel, Jutta, Türeci, Özlem, Sahin, Ugur

Here we present a comprehensive molecular mapping of virus-induced autoimmune B cell responses obtained by serological identification of antigens by recombinant expression cloning analysis....

Towards a Coronavirus-Based HIV Multigene Vaccine

Eriksson, Klara K., Makia, Divine, Maier, Reinhard, Ludewig, Burkhard, Thiel, Volker

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection represents one of the major health threats in the developing world. The costly treatment of infected individuals with multiple highly efficient anti-HIV...

Immunopathological Basis of Virus-induced Myocarditis

Maier, Reinhard, Krebs, Philippe, Ludewig, Burkhard

Heart diseases are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in industrialized countries. Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), one of the most common heart diseases, may be the consequence of...

Immunotherapy with Dendritic Cells Directed against Tumor Antigens Shared with Normal Host Cells Results in Severe Autoimmune Disease

Ludewig, Burkhard, Ochsenbein, Adrian F., Odermatt, Bernhard, Paulin, Denise, Hengartner, Hans, Zinkernagel, Rolf M.

Vaccination with dendritic cells (DCs) presenting tumor antigens induces primary immune response or amplifies existing cytotoxic antitumor T cell responses. This study documents that antitumor...

Dendritic Cells Induce Autoimmune Diabetes and Maintain Disease via De Novo Formation of Local Lymphoid Tissue

Ludewig, Burkhard, Odermatt, Bernhard, Landmann, Salome, Hengartner, Hans, Zinkernagel, Rolf M.

Activation of autoreactive T cells can lead to autoimmune diseases such as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). The initiation and maintenance of IDDM by dendritic cells (DC), the most potent...

Mouse Hepatitis Virus Liver Pathology Is Dependent on ADP-Ribose-1″-Phosphatase, a Viral Function Conserved in the Alpha-Like Supergroup▿

Eriksson, Klara Kristin, Cervantes-Barragán, Luisa, Ludewig, Burkhard, Thiel, Volker

Viral infection of the liver can lead to severe tissue damage when high levels of viral replication and spread in the organ are coupled with strong induction of inflammatory responses. Here we report...

Immunopathological Basis of Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus-Induced Chorioretinitis and Keratitis▿

Zinkernagel, Martin S., Bolinger, Beatrice, Krebs, Philippe, Onder, Lucas, Miller, Simone, Ludewig, Burkhard

The infection of humans with the rodent-borne lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) can lead to central nervous system disease in adults or severe neurological disease with hydrocephalus and...