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List of works by Reinhard Kurth

A novel small animal model to study the replication of simian foamy virus in vivo

scientific article published on 18 October 2013

Antibodies neutralizing feline leukaemia virus (FeLV) in cats immunized with the transmembrane envelope protein p15E.

scientific article

Aspects of risk assessment and risk management of nosocomial transmission of classical and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with special attention to German regulations

scientific article published on January 2004

Beneficial and detrimental effects of human endogenous retroviruses

scientific article

Biosecurity: risk and response

scientific article published on 01 October 2004

Characterisation of a human cell-adapted porcine endogenous retrovirus PERV-A/C.

scientific article published on April 2010

Distribution and expression of porcine endogenous retroviruses in multi-transgenic pigs generated for xenotransplantation

scientific article published in March 2009

Enhanced T- and B-cell responses to simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)agm, SIVmac and human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Gag DNA immunization and identification of novel T-cell epitopes in mice via codon optimization

scientific article published on 8 July 2009

Expression of human endogenous retrovirus K in melanomas and melanoma cell lines

scientific article

Expression of porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVs) in melanomas of Munich miniature swine (MMS) Troll

scientific article published on 27 February 2007

Expression of the human endogenous retrovirus-K transmembrane envelope, Rec and Np9 proteins in melanomas and melanoma cell lines

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Failure to detect Borna disease virus antigen and RNA in human blood

scientific article published on 5 July 2006

First clinical study in Germany. Vaccination against HIV coming soon?

scientific article published in November 2003

Generation of neutralising antibodies against porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVs)

scientific article published on January 14, 2011

Genetic alterations of the long terminal repeat of an ecotropic porcine endogenous retrovirus during passage in human cells

scientific article published on September 15, 2003

High Virus Loads in Naturally and Experimentally SIVagm-Infected African Green Monkeys

scientific article

Human endogenous retrovirus HERV-K113 is capable of producing intact viral particles

scientific article published on February 2008

Identification of the protease cleavage sites in a reconstituted Gag polyprotein of an HERV-K(HML-2) element

scientific article (publication date: 9 May 2011)

Immunization with the transmembrane protein of a retrovirus, feline leukemia virus: absence of antigenemia following challenge

scientific article published on 23 November 2010

Immunological changes in simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV(agm))-infected African green monkeys (AGM): expanded cytotoxic T lymphocyte, natural killer and B cell subsets in the natural host of SIV(agm).

scientific article

In Asia an influenza "supervirus" could develop. Are we armed for the next influenza pandemic? interview by Waldtraud Paukstadt)

scientific article published in December 2004

Increased neutralizing antibody response after simultaneous immunization with leucogen and the feline leukemia virus transmembrane protein.

scientific article

Induction of anti-simian immunodeficiency virus cellular and humoral immune responses in rhesus macaques by peptide immunogens: correlation of CTL activity and reduction of cell-associated but not plasma virus load following challenge

scientific article published in January 2002

Induction of neutralizing antibodies specific for the envelope proteins of the koala retrovirus by immunization with recombinant proteins or with DNA.

scientific article published on 30 April 2015

Infectious diseases: How big is the real danger? Interview by Strehlow Karen

scientific article published in October 2005

Inhibition of porcine endogenous retroviruses by RNA interference: increasing the safety of xenotransplantation.

scientific article published in July 2004

Joint production of prime/boost pairs of Fowlpox Virus and Modified Vaccinia Ankara recombinants carrying the same transgene.

scientific article

Knockdown of porcine endogenous retrovirus (PERV) expression by PERV-specific shRNA in transgenic pigs

scientific article published in February 2008

Lack of evidence for xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus(XMRV) in German prostate cancer patients

scientific article

Mode of interaction between the HIV-1-neutralizing monoclonal antibody 2F5 and its epitope

scientific article published in May 2009

Molecular cloning and functional characterization of the human endogenous retrovirus K113.

scientific article published on February 2008

Neutralizing antibodies against conserved domains of p15E of porcine endogenous retroviruses: basis for a vaccine for xenotransplantation?

scientific article published on 01 March 2003

No evidence for PERV release by islet cells from German landrace pigs.

scientific article published in January 2008

No evidence for XMRV in German CFS and MS patients with fatigue despite the ability of the virus to infect human blood cells in vitro

scientific article

No in vivo infection of triple immunosuppressed non-human primates after inoculation with high titers of porcine endogenous retroviruses

scientific article published in January 2009

No transmission of porcine endogenous retroviruses (PERVs) in a long-term pig to rat xenotransplantation model and no infection of immunosuppressed rats

scientific article

PDZ Domain-mediated interaction of interleukin-16 precursor proteins with myosin phosphatase targeting subunits

scientific article (publication date: 24 October 2003)

Porcine endogenous retroviruses PERV-A and PERV-B infect neither mouse cells in vitro nor SCID mice in vivo.

scientific article

Porcine endogenous retroviruses: no infection in patients treated with a bioreactor based on porcine liver cells

scientific article published in October 2003

Public health and civil liberties. Introduction to the talking point on public health versus civil liberties

scientific article

Reconstitution of the ancestral glycoprotein of human endogenous retrovirus k and modulation of its functional activity by truncation of the cytoplasmic domain

scientific article (publication date: December 2009)

Reconstitution, age estimation and expression of the Human Endogenous Retrovirus K113 with its original sequence present at the time of integration

scientific article published on 24 September 2009

Regulation of human endogenous retrovirus-K expression in melanomas by CpG methylation

scientific article

Retroelements and the human genome: new perspectives on an old relation

scientific article

Retroviral safety: analyses of phylogeny, prevalence and polymorphisms of porcine endogenous retroviruses

scientific article

Simian immunodeficiency viruses with defective nef genes show increased susceptibility to the noncytotoxic antiviral activity of CD8+ lymphocytes

scientific article published on 01 March 2002

Staufen-1 interacts with the human endogenous retrovirus family HERV-K(HML-2) rec and gag proteins and increases virion production

scientific article published on 7 August 2013

Suppressing active replication of a live attenuated simian immunodeficiency virus vaccine does not abrogate protection from challenge

scientific article published on 11 December 2015

The Rec protein of HERV‐K(HML‐2) upregulates androgen receptor activity by binding to the human small glutamine‐rich tetratricopeptide repeat protein (hSGT)

scientific article published on July 14, 2012

The evolutionary dynamics of human endogenous retroviral families

scientific article

The role of the immune response during SIVagm infection of the African green monkey natural host

scientific article published on January 2004

The transmembrane envelope protein of HIV-1 and other retroviruses modulate cytokine production and induce Treg cells.

scientific article published on 21 December 2006

Transspecies transmission of the endogenous koala retrovirus

scientific article published on June 2006

Tumour virus proteins at the cell surface

journal article; published in Nature on 1975-8

Unsung Hero Robert C. Gallo

scientific article

Vaccine development using the simian immunodeficiency virus model for AIDS.

scientific article published in January 2002

Vaccine protection against lethal homologous and heterologous challenge using recombinant AAV vectors expressing codon-optimized genes from pandemic swine origin influenza virus (SOIV)

scientific article published on December 30, 2010