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@ARTICLE{Wang:307665,
author = {J. Wang and Y. Qiu and Z. Marti and F. Li and M. Wacker and
P. Oldrati and L. Mühlenbruch$^*$ and L. Jin and H. Zhang
and W. Xu and T. Li and B. Roschitzki and W. Faigle and Y.
Liu and J. T. Nguyen and J.-H. Lee and V. Haunerdinger and
M. Hauri-Hohl and F. Momburg and J. Bauer$^*$ and H.-G.
Rammensee$^*$ and M. Sospedra and R. Magliozzi and R.
Reynolds and J. Walz$^*$ and R. Martin},
title = {{EBV} infection and {HLA}-{DR}15 jointly drive multiple
sclerosis by myelin peptide presentation.},
journal = {Cell},
volume = {nn},
issn = {0092-8674},
address = {[Cambridge, Mass.]},
publisher = {Cell Press},
reportid = {DKFZ-2026-00122},
pages = {nn},
year = {2026},
note = {epub},
abstract = {Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is involved in causing and
probably also in perpetuating multiple sclerosis (MS). Among
several mechanisms of how EBV may contribute are
transcriptome alterations, including changes of antigen
processing and preferential presentation of both viral and
self-antigens. Here, we report that EBV reprograms the
transcriptome and immunopeptidome presented on the
MS-associated human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DR15 molecules
of infected B cells. Identical myelin basic protein (MBP)
peptides were found to be presented on both EBV-infected B
cells and MS brain tissue but not primary B cells and thymic
tissue. Peripheral memory and cerebrospinal fluid
(CSF)-derived CD4+ T cells of HLA-DR15+ MS patients
responded to MBP peptides, MBP(78-90) and/or MBP(83-90), and
T cell clones raised with these peptides recognized all MBP
peptides ending at amino acid MBP90 in MS brain tissue. Our
study provides a new mechanistic link for how the
environmental and genetic risk factors, EBV infection and
HLA-DR15 haplotype, may contribute jointly to MS.},
keywords = {B cells (Other) / Epstein-Barr virus (Other) / autoreactive
CD4(+) T cells (Other) / brain tissue (Other) /
immunopeptidome (Other) / multiple sclerosis (Other) /
myelin basic protein peptide (Other) / thymic tissue
(Other)},
cin = {TU01},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-He78)TU01-20160331},
pnm = {899 - ohne Topic (POF4-899)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-899},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:41534530},
doi = {10.1016/j.cell.2025.12.046},
url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/307665},
}