Nachwuchsgruppe Virologie/Immunologie
Dr. Tanja Breinig
Inhalt
Mitarbeiter
Forschungsgebiete
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Charakterisierung humaner T-Zellimmunantworten gegen verschiedene Hefegattungen
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Untersuchungen zur Superinfektionen des humanen Immundefizienzvirus HIV an einem in vitro-Infektionsmodell
Curriculum Vitae
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22.12.1972 *
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1992: Abitur am Gymnasium am Schloß, Saarbrücken.
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1992-1998: Studium der Biologie an der Universität des Saarlandes
Hauptfach: Mikrobiologie/Biotechnologie, Nebenfächer: Biochemie, Genetik.
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1998: Diplom in Mikrobiologie/Biotechnologie.
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November 2002: Promotion zum Dr. rer. nat. mit der Dissertation: "Untersuchungen zur Pathogenese des humanen Immundefizienzvirus HIV: virale Latenz und Funktionalität von T-Zell-Immunantworten gegen mikrobielle Erreger" am Institut für Virologie, Universitätsklinikum Homburg.
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Dezember 2002 bis Januar 2004: Postdoktorandin am Institut für Virologie, Universitätsklinikum Homburg.
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Seit Februar 2004: Leiterin der Nachwuchsgruppe "Virologie/Immunologie" am Zentrum für Human- und Molekularbiologie (ZHMB) an der Universität des Saarlandes.
Publikationen
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Kirschbaum, M., Jaeger, M. S., Schenkel, T., Breinig, T., Meyerhans, A., and Duschl, C. (2008)
T cell activation on a single-cell level in dielectrophoresis-based microfluidic
devices.
J Chromatogr A 1202, 83-89.
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Scheller, N., Furtwängler, R., Sester, U., Maier, R., Breinig, T., and Meyerhans, A. (2008)
Human cytomegalovirus protein pp65: an efficient protein carrier system into human dendritic cells.
Gene Ther 15, 318-325.
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Galao, R. P., Scheller, N., Alves-Rodrigues, I., Breinig, T., Meyerhans, A., and Diez, J. (2007)
Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a versatile eukaryotic system in virology.
Microb Cell Fact 6, 32.
Powilleit, F., Breinig, T., and Schmitt, M.J. (2008)
Exploiting the Yeast L-A Viral Capsid for the In Vivo
Assembly of Chimeric VLPs as Platform in Vaccine
Development and Foreign Protein Expression.
PLoS ONE 2, e415.
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Schütz, A., Scheller, N., Breinig, T., and Meyerhans, A. (2006)
The Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus AcNPV induces functional maturation of human primary monocyte-derived dendritic cells.
Vaccine 24, 7190-96.
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Wadle, A.,Held, G., Neumann, F., Kleber, S., Wuellner, B., Asemissen, AM., Kubuschok, B., Scheibenbogen, C., Breinig, T., Meyerhans, A., and Renner, C. (2006)
Cross-presentation of HLA class I epitopes from influenza matrix protein produced in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Vaccine 24, 6272-81.
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Breinig, T., Sester, M., Sester, U., and Meyerhans, A. (2006)
Antigen-specific T cell responses: Determination of their frequencies, homing properties, and effector functions in human whole blood.
Methods 38, 77-83.
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Bocharov, G., Ford, N. J., Edwards, J., Breinig, T., Wain-Hobson, S., and Meyerhans, A. (2005)
A genetic algorithm approach to simulating HIV evolution reveals the strong impact of multiply
infected cells and recombination.
J Gen Virol 86, 3109-18.
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Meyerhans A, Breinig T., Vartanian J-P., and Wain-Hobson S. (2004)
Forms and Function of Intracellular HIV DNA.
In: HIV Sequence Compendium 2003; pp. 14-21. Edited by: Leitner T, Foley B, Hahn B, Marx P, McCutchan F, Mellors J, Wolinsky S, and Korber B. Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, LA-UR number 04-7420.
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Breinig, F., Eiden-Plach, A., Breinig, T., and Schmitt, MJ. (2004)
Ein virales Killertoxin-Sekretionssignal zur effizienten Proteinsekretion.
Laborwelt 5, 4-7.
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Schmitt et al. (2004)
Foreign proteins targeted to successful secretion in yeast species.
ASM News 70, 185.
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Eiden-Plach A., Zagorc T., Heintel T., Carius Y., Breinig F., and Schmitt MJ. (2004)
Viral preprotoxin signal sequence allows efficient secretion of green fluorescent protein by Candida glabrata, Pichia pastoris, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 70, 961-66.
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Heintel T.*, Breinig F.*, Schmitt MJ., and Meyerhans A. (2003)
Extensive MHC class I-restricted CD8 T lymphocyte responses against various yeast genera in humans.
FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol. 39, 279-86.
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Breinig F*, Heintel T.*, Schumacher A., Meyerhans A., and Schmitt MJ. (2003)
Specific activation of CMV-primed human T lymphocytes by cytomegalovirus pp65 expressed in fission yeast.
FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol. 38, 231-9.
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Heintel T., Sester M., Rodriguez MM., Krieg C., Sester U., Wagner R., Pees HW., Gartner B., Maier R., and Meyerhans A. (2002)
The fraction of perforin-expressing HIV-specific CD8 T cells is a marker for disease progression in HIV infection.
AIDS 26, 1497-501.
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Heintel T., Zagorc T., and Schmitt MJ. (2001)
Expression, processing and high level secretion of a virus toxin in fission yeast.
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 56; 165-72.
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