Selected Publications
Fabienne Läderach, Ioannis Piteros, Éanna Fennell, Elena Bremer, Mette Last, Sandra Schmid, Lisa Rieble, Caroline Campbell, Isis Ludwig-Portugall, Lea Bornemann, Alexander Gruhl, Klaus Eulitz, Paul Gueguen, Juliane Mietz, Anne Müller, Gaetana Pezzino, Jürgen Schmitz, Guido Ferlazzo, Josef Mautner, and Christian Münz, EBV induces CNS homing of B cells attracting inflammatory T cells, Nature (2025), Aug 6, doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09378-0.
Katarina Wendy Schmidt, Charlotte Montespan, Danielle Thompson, Miriam S. Lucas, Laure-Anne Ligeon, Harald Wodrich, Alexander S. Hahn, Urs F. Greber, and Christian Münz, Selective autophagy impedes KSHV entry after recruiting the membrane damage sensor galectin-8 to virus-containing endosomes, Cell Reports (2024), 43(12):115019, doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.115019.
Nicole Caduff, Lisa Rieble, Michelle Böni, Donal McHugh, Romin Roshan, Wendell Miley, Nazzarena Labo, Sumanta Barman, Matthew Trivett, Douwe M. T. Bosma, Julia Rühl, Norbert Göbels, Denise Whitby and Christian Münz, KSHV infection of B cells primes protective T cell responses in humanized mice, Nature Communications (2024), 15(1):4841, doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-49209-w.
Bojana Müller-Durovic, Jessica Jäger, Christine Engelmann, Patrick Schuhmachers, Sabine Altermatt, Yannick Schlup, Urs Duthaler, Sarah Roffeis, Gunhild Unterstab, Nadine Assmann, Fredrik Trulsson, Rebekah Steiner, Celia Makowiecz, Joy Edwards-Hicks, James West, Lorinda Turner, Leyla Develioglu, Robert Ivanek, Tarik Azzi, Philippe G. Dehio, Christoph Berger, Swiss Transplant Cohort Study, Dmitry Kuzmin, Sophie Saboz, Josef Mautner, Jordan Löliger, Marco Geigges, Darya Palianina, Nina Khanna, Stefan Dirnhofer, Christian Münz, Glenn R. Bantug and Christoph Hess, A metabolic dependency of EBV can be targeted to hinder B cell transformation, Science (2024), 385(6704):eadk4898, doi: 10.1126/science.adk4898.
Maria Pena-Francesch, Liliana Danusia Vanoaica, Gao-Feng Zhu, Michael Stumpe, Devanarayanan Siva Sankar, Heike Nowag, Alma Delia Valencia-Camargo, Wolfgang Hammerschmidt, Jörn Dengjel, Laure-Anne Ligeon and Christian Münz, The autophagy machinery interacts with EBV capsids during viral envelope release, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2023), 120(34):e2211281120, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2211281120.
Yun Deng, Bithi Chatterjee, Kyra Zens, Hana Zdimerova, Anne Müller, Patrick Schuhmachers, Laure-Anne Ligeon, Antonino Bongiovanni, Riccarda Capaul, Andrea Zbinden, Angelika Holler, Hans Stauss, Wolfgang Hammerschmidt and Christian Münz, CD27 is required for protective early lytic EBV antigen specific CD8+ T cell expansion, Blood (2021), 137(23):3225-3236, doi: 10.1182/blood.2020009482.
Nicole Caduff, Donal McHugh, Lisa Rieble, Catherine S. Forconi, John M. Ong'echa, Peter O. Oluoch, Ana Raykova, Anita Murer, Thomas F. Schulz, David J. Blackbourn, Obinna Chijioke, Ann M. Moormann and Christian Münz, KSHV infection drives poorly cytotoxic CD56 negative natural killer cell differentiation in vivo, Cell Reports (2021), 35(5):109056, doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109056.
Laure-Anne Ligeon, Maria Pena-Francesch, Liliana Danusia Vanoaica, Nicolás Gonzalo Núñez, Deepti Talwar, Tobias P. Dick and Christian Münz, Oxidation inhibits autophagy protein deconjugation from phagosomes to sustain MHC class II restricted antigen presentation, Nature Communications (2021), 12(1):1508, doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21829-6.
Jian Wang, Ivan Jelcic, Lena Mühlenbruch, Veronika Haunerdinger, Nora C. Toussaint, Yingdong Zhao, Carolina Cruciani, Wolfgang Faigle, Reza Naghavian, Magdalena Foege, Thomas M.C. Binder, Thomas Eiermann, Lennart Opitz, Laura Fuentes-Font, Richard Reynolds, William W. Kwok, Julie T. Nguyen, Jar-How Lee, Andreas Lutterotti, Christian Münz, Hans-Georg Rammensee, Mathias Hauri-Hohl, Mireia Sospedra, Stefan Stevanovic and Roland Martin, HLA-DR15 Molecules Jointly Shape an Autoreactive T Cell Repertoire in Multiple Sclerosis, Cell (2020), 183(5):1264-1281, doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.09.054.
