Selected References
- Zeyn Y, Hobernik D, Wilk U, Pöhmerer J, Hieber C, Medina-Montano C, Röhrig N, Strähle CF, Thoma-Kress AK, Wagner E, Bros M*, Berger S* (2023) Transcriptional Targeting of Dendritic Cells Using an Optimized Human Fascin1 Gene Promoter. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 24(23):16938. doi: 10.3390/ijms242316938. *corresponding authors
- Rojo-Romanos T, Karpinski J, Millen S, Beschorner N, Simon F, Paszkowski-Rogacz M, Lansing F, Schneider PM, Sonntag J, Hauber J, Thoma-Kress AK, Buchholz F (2023) Precise excision of HTLV-1 provirus with a designer-recombinase. Mol. Therapy S1525-0016(23)00135-1. doi: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2023.03.014.
- Schnell AP, Kohrt S, Aristodemou A, Taylor GP, Bangham CRM, Thoma-Kress AK (2022) HDAC inhibitors Panobinostat and Romidepsin enhance tax transcription in HTLV-1-infected cell lines and freshly isolated patients' T-cells. Front. Immunol. 13:978800. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.978800
- Heym S, Mohr CF, Engelbrecht HC, Fleckenstein B, Thoma-Kress AK (2022) Alternative NF-κB Signaling Discriminates Induction of the Tumor Marker Fascin by the Viral Oncoproteins Tax-1 and Tax-2 of Human T-Cell Leukemia Viruses. Cancers 14(3):537. doi: 10.3390/cancers14030537.
- Kohrt S, Strobel S, Mann MC, Sticht H, Fleckenstein B, Thoma-Kress AK (2021) Characterizing the Interaction between the HTLV-1 Transactivator Tax-1 with Transcription Elongation Factor ELL2 and Its Impact on Viral Transactivation. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2(24), 13597; doi: 10.3390/ijms222413597.
- Donhauser N, Socher E, Millen S, Heym S, Sticht H, Thoma-Kress AK (2020) Transfer of HTLV-1 p8 and Gag to target T-cells depends on VASP, a novel interaction partner of p8. PLoS Pathogens 16(9): e1008879. doi: 10.1371/ journal.ppat.1008879.
- Millen S, Meretuk L, Göttlicher T, Schmitt S, Fleckenstein B, Thoma-Kress AK (2020) A novel positive feedback-loop between the HTLV-1 oncoprotein Tax and NF-κB activity in T-cells. Retrovirology 17(1):30. doi: 10.1186/s12977-020-00538-w.
- Millen S, Gross C, Donhauser N, Mann MC, Péloponèse JM Jr, Thoma-Kress AK (2019) Collagen IV (COL4A1, COL4A2), a Component of the Viral Biofilm, Is Induced by the HTLV-1 Oncoprotein Tax and Impacts Virus Transmission. Front Microbiol. 10:2439. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02439.
Reviews and Book Chapters
- de Mendoza C, Taylor G, Gessain A, Thoma-Kress AK, Bangham C, Vesterbacka J, Accolla R, Bazarbachi A, van Weyenbergh J, Cook L, Casseb J, Ramos JC, Rosadas C, Macchi B, Cassar O, Soriano V. (2024) Virology, pathogenesis, epidemiology and clinical management of HTLV-1 infection. Proceedings of the 30th HTLV European research network (HERN 2023). NeuroImmune Pharmacol. Ther. doi: 10.1515/nipt-2023-0025.
- Kemeter L, Birzer A, Heym S, Thoma-Kress AK (2023) Milk transmission of mammalian retroviruses. Mircoorganisms. 11(7):1777. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms11071777.
- Millen S, Thoma-Kress AK (2022) Milk Transmission of HTLV-1 and the need for innovative prevention strategies. Front Med. 9:867147. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.867147.
- Schnell AP, Kohrt S, Thoma-Kress AK (2021) Latency Reversing Agents: Kick and Kill of HTLV-1? Int J Mol Sci. 22(11):5545. doi: 10.3390/ijms22115545.
