PD-L1 Expression on Retrovirus-Infected Cells Mediates Immune Escape from CD8⁺ T Cell Killing

• Ilseyar Akhmetzyanova ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ilseyar Akhmetzyanova, Malgorzata Drabczyk

  Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Malgorzata Drabczyk ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ilseyar Akhmetzyanova, Malgorzata Drabczyk

  Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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• C. Preston Neff,

  Affiliation University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

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• Kathrin Gibbert,

  Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Kirsten K. Dietze,

  Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Tanja Werner,

  Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Jia Liu,

  Affiliations Institute for Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital of Tonji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China

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• Lieping Chen,

  Affiliation Department of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Karl S. Lang,

  Affiliation Institute for Immunology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Brent E. Palmer,

  Affiliation University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

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• Ulf Dittmer,

  Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Gennadiy Zelinskyy

  * E-mail: gennadiy.zelinskyy@uni-due.de

  Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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