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Human Cytomegalovirus Inhibition of Major Histocompatibility Complex Transcription and Interferon Signal Transduction

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Viral Proteins Counteracting Host Defenses

Part of the book series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology ((CT MICROBIOLOGY,volume 269))

Abstract

Pathogens have evolved diverse mechanisms for escaping host innate and adaptive immunity. Viruses that maintain a persistent infection are particularly effective at disabling key arms of the host immune response. For example, the herpesviruses establish a persistent infection in human and animal hosts, in part through critical immunoevasive strategies. Cytomegalovirus, a beta-herpesvirus, impairs major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and class II antigen presentation by decreasing MHC expression on the surface of the infected cell, thus enabling infected cells to escape CD8+ and CD4+ T lymphocyte immunosurveillance. Moreover, cytomegalovirus blocks the interferon signal transduction pathway, thereby limiting the direct and indirect antiviral effects of the interferons. In this review, we focus on an emerging paradigm in which the effectiveness of viruses, particularly human cytomegalovirus, to escape antiviral immune responses is significantly enhanced by their ability to inhibit MHC transcription and interferon (IFN)-stimulated (JAK/STAT) signal transduction.

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Miller, D.M., Cebulla, C.M., Sedmak, D.D. (2002). Human Cytomegalovirus Inhibition of Major Histocompatibility Complex Transcription and Interferon Signal Transduction. In: Koszinowski, U.H., Hengel, H. (eds) Viral Proteins Counteracting Host Defenses. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, vol 269. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59421-2_10

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