Martin Billeter - Selected publications#

• Roscic-Mrkic, B., Schwendener, R.A., Odermatt, B., Zuniga, A., Pavlovic, J., Billeter, M.A., and Cattaneo, R. (2001). Roles of macrophages in measles virus infection of genetically modified mice. J. Virol. 75, 3343-3351.

• Wang, Z., Hangartner, L., Cornu, T. I., Martin, L. R., Zuniga, A., Billeter, M. A., and Naim, H. Y. (2001). Recombinant measles viruses expressing heterologous antigens of mumps and simian immunodeficiency viruses. Vaccine 19, 2329-2336

• Naim, H., Y., Ehler, E., and Billeter, M. A. (2000). Measles virus matrix protein specifies apical virus release and glycoprotein sorting in epithelial cells. EMBO J. 19, 1-10.

• Patterson, J.B., Thomas, D., Lewicki, H., Billeter, M.A., and Oldstone, M.B.A. (2000). V and C proteins of measles virus function as virulence factors in vivo. Virology 267, 80-89.

• Maisner, A., Mrkic, B., Herrler, G., Moll, M., Billeter, M.A., Cattaneo, R., and Klenk, H.-D. (2000). Recombinant measles virus requiring an exogenous protease for activation of infectivity. J. Gen. Virol. 81, 441-449.

• Mrkic, B., Odermatt, B., Klein, M.A., Billeter, M.A., Pavlovic, J., and Cattaneo, R. (2000). Lymphatic dissemination and comparative pathology of recombinant measles viruses in genetically modified mice. J. Virol. 74, 1364-1372.

• Duprex, W.P., McQuaid, S., Hangartner, L., Billeter, M. A., and Rima, B. K. (1999). Observation of measles virus cell-to-cell spread in astrocytoma cells by using green fluorescent protein-expressing recombinant virus. J. Virol. 73, 9568-9575.

• Duprex, W.P., Duffy, I, McQuaid, S., Hamill, L., Cosby, S.L., Billeter, M.A., Schneider-Schaulies, J., ter Meulen, V., and Rima, B.K. (1999). The H gene of rodent brain-adapted measles virus confers neurovirulence to the Edmonston Vaccine strain. J. Virol. 73, 6916-6922.

• Singh, M., Cattaneo, R., and Billeter, M.A. (1999). A recombinant measles virus expressing hepatitis B virus surface antigen induces humoral immune responses in genetically modified mice. J. Virol. 73, 4823-4828.

• Howley, P.M., Lafont, B., Spehner, D., Kaelin, K., Billeter, M.A., and Drillien, R. (1999). A functional measles virus replication and transcription machinery encoded by the vaccinia virus genome. J. Virol. Meth. 79, 65-74.

• Escoffier, C., Manié, S., Vincent, S, Muller, C.P., Billeter, M.A. and Gerlier, D. (1999). Non-structural C protein is required for efficient measles virus replication in human peripheral blood cells. J. Virol. 73, 1695-1698.

• Singh, M., and Billeter, M.A. (1999). A recombinant measles virus expressing biologically active human interleukin-12. J. Gen. Virol. 80, 101-106.

• Tober, C., Seufert., M., Schneider, H., Billeter, M.A., Johnston, I.C.D., Niewiesk, S., ter Meulen, V., and Schneider-Schaulies, S. (1998). Expression of measles virus V protein is associated with transcriptional control and pathogenicity. J. Virol. 72, 8124-8132.

• Valsamakis, A., Schneider, H., Auwaerter, P.G., Kaneshima, H., Billeter, M.A., and Griffin, D.E. (1998). Recombinant measles viruses with mutations in the C, V, or F gene have altered growth phenotypes in vivo. J. Virol. 72, 7754-7761.

• Fehr, T., Naim, H.Y., Bachmann, M.F., Ochsenbein, A., Spielhofer, P., Bucher, E., Hengartner, H., Billeter, M.A., and Zinkernagel, R.M. (1998). T-cell independent IgM and enduring protective IgG antibodies induced by chimeric measles viruses. Nature Medicine 4, 945-948.

• Cathomen, T., Mrkic, B., Spehner, D., Drillien R., Naef, R., Pavlovic, J., Aguzzi, A., Billeter, M.A., and Cattaneo, R. (1998). A matrix-less measles virus is infectious and elicits extensive cell fusion: consequences for propagation in the brain. EMBO J. 17, 3899-3908.

• Spielhofer, P., Bächi, T., Fehr, T., Christiansen, G., Cattaneo, R., Kaelin, K., Billeter, M.A., and Naim, H.Y. (1998). Chimeric measles viruses with a foreign envelope. J. Virol. 72, 2150-2159.

• Radecke, F., and Billeter, M. A. (1997). Reverse genetics meets the non-segmented negative-strand RNA viruses. Rev. Med. Virol. 7, 49-63.

• Schneider, H., Kaelin, K. and Billeter, M.A. (1997). Recombinant measles viruses defective for RNA editing and V protein synthesis are viable in cultured cells.Virology 227, 314-322.

• Scheider, H., Spielhofer, P., Kaelin, K., Dötsch, C., Radecke, F., Sutter, G. and Billeter, M.A. (1997). Rescue of measles virus using a replication-deficient vaccinia-T7 vector. J. Virol. Methods 64, 57-64.

• Schlender, J., Schnorr, J.-J., Spielhofer, P., Cathomen, T., Cattaneo, R., Billeter, M.A., ter Meulen, V., and Schneider-Schaulies, S. (1996). Interaction of measles virus glycoproteins with the surface of uninfected peripheral blood lymphocytes induces immunosuppression in vitro. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93, 13194-13199.

• Bankamp, B., Horikami, S.M., Thompson, P.D., Huber, M., Billeter, M.A. and Moyer, S.A. (1996). Domains of the measles virus N protein required for binding to P protein and self-assembly. Virology 216, 272-277.

• Radecke, F. and Billeter, M.A. (1996). The nonstructural C protein is not essential for multiplication of Edmonston B strain measles virus in cultured cells. Virology 217, 418-421.

• Radecke, F., Spielhofer, P., Schneider, H., Kaelin, K., Huber, M., Dötsch, C., Christiansen, G. and Billeter, M. A. (1995). Rescue of measles viruses from cloned DNA. EMBO J. 14, 5773-5784.

• Sidhu, M.S., Chan, J., Kaelin, K., Spielhofer, P., Radecke, F., Schneider, H., Masurekar, M., Dowling, P.C., Billeter, M.A. and Udem, S.A. (1995). Rescue of synthetic measles virus minireplicons: measles genomic termini direct efficient expression and propagation of a reporter gene. Virology 208, 800-807.

• Komase, K., Rima, B.K., Pardowitz, I., Kunz, C., Billeter, M.A., ter Meulen, V., Baczko, K., (1995). A comparison of the nucleotide sequence of the measles virus L genes derived from wil-type viruses and SSPE brain tissues. Virology 208, 795-799.