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Matti Sällberg is affiliated with Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden. Their research is primarily centered in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Oncology, and Immunology as subfields.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, CAR-T Cell Therapy Research, Hepatitis C Virus Research, Diabetes and Associated Disorders, and Long-Term Effects of COVID-19.

Frequent collaborators in their work include Gustaf Ahlén, Lars Frelin, Anna Pasetto, Panagiota Maravelia, and Marcus Buggert.

Sällberg has published in several recurring venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cytotherapy
  • Gut
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Molecular Therapy

Recent significant papers authored by or involving Sällberg include:

  • Metabolic Perturbation Associated With COVID-19 Disease Severity and SARS-CoV-2 Replication, 2021, Molecular & Cellular Proteomics
  • Expansion of SARS-CoV-2-Specific Antibody-Secreting Cells and Generation of Neutralizing Antibodies in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients, 2020, The Journal of Immunology
  • A DNA-based vaccine protects against Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus disease in a Cynomolgus macaque model, 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • The SARS-CoV-2 N Protein Is a Good Component in a Vaccine, 2020, Journal of Virology
  • SARS-CoV-2-specific humoral and cellular immunity persists through 9 months irrespective of COVID-19 severity at hospitalisation, 2021, Clinical & Translational Immunology

Best Publications

  • The antiviral compound ribavirin modulates the T helper (Th) 1/Th2 subset balance in hepatitis B and C virus-specific immune responses

    Catharina Hultgren;David R. Milich;Ola Weiland;Matti Sällberg

  • A function of the hepatitis B virus precore protein is to regulate the immune response to the core antigen

    Margaret T. Chen;Jean Noel Billaud;Matti Sällberg;Luca G. Guidotti

  • Immune tolerance split between hepatitis B virus precore and core proteins.

    Margaret Chen;Matti Sällberg;Janice Hughes;Joyce Jones

  • Identification of galactose-α-1,3-galactose in the gastrointestinal tract of the tick Ixodes ricinus; possible relationship with red meat allergy.

    C. Hamsten;M. Starkhammar;T. A. T. Tran;Magnus Johansson

  • Limited humoral immunity in hepatitis C virus infection.

    Margaret Chen;Matti Sällberg;Anders Sönnerborg;Ola Weiland

  • In vivo electroporation enhances the immunogenicity of hepatitis C virus nonstructural 3/4A DNA by increased local DNA uptake, protein expression, inflammation, and infiltration of CD3+ T cells.

    Gustaf Ahlén;Jonas Söderholm;Torunn Tjelle;Rune Kjeken

  • Cutaneous vaccination using microneedles coated with hepatitis C DNA vaccine

    Harvinder S. Gill;Jonas Sõderholm;Jonas Sõderholm;Mark R. Prausnitz;Matti Sällberg

  • Codon optimization and mRNA amplification effectively enhances the immunogenicity of the hepatitis C virus nonstructural 3/4A gene.

    L Frelin;G Ahlén;M Alheim;O Weiland

  • Relation between viral fitness and immune escape within the hepatitis C virus protease

    Jonas Soderholm;Gustaf Ahlen;Artur Kaul;Lars Frelin

  • Excellent Response Rate to a Double Dose of the Combined Hepatitis A and B Vaccine in Previous Nonresponders to Hepatitis B Vaccine

    Kristina Cardell;Britt Åkerlind;Matti Sällberg;Aril Frydén

  • Priming of cytotoxic T cell responses to exogenous hepatitis B virus core antigen is B cell dependent.

    Una Lazdina;Mats Alheim;Jessica Nyström;Catharina Hultgren

  • A practical approach to immunotherapy of hepatocellular carcinoma using T cells redirected against hepatitis B virus.

    Sarene Koh;Noriko Shimasaki;Rossarin Suwanarusk;Zi Zong Ho

  • Characterisation of a linear binding site for a monoclonal antibody to hepatitis B core antigen.

    Matti Sällberg;Ulla Rudén;Lars O. Magnius;Hans P. Harthus

  • Low dose and gene gun immunization with a hepatitis C virus nonstructural (NS) 3 DNA-based vaccine containing NS4A inhibit NS3/4A-expressing tumors in vivo.

    L Frelin;M Alheim;A Chen;J Söderholm

  • Metabolic Perturbation Associated With COVID-19 Disease Severity and SARS-CoV-2 Replication.

    Shuba Krishnan;Hampus Nordqvist;Anoop T. Ambikan;Soham Gupta

  • Immunodominant regions within the hepatitis C virus core and putative matrix proteins.

    M Sällberg;U Rudén;B Wahren;L O Magnius

  • Molecular Basis for the Interaction of the Hepatitis B Virus Core Antigen with the Surface Immunoglobulin Receptor on Naive B Cells

    Una Lazdina;Tinghua Cao;Juris Steinbergs;Juris Steinbergs;Mats Alheim

  • Expansion of SARS-CoV-2-Specific Antibody-Secreting Cells and Generation of Neutralizing Antibodies in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients.

    Renata Varnaitė;Marina García;Hedvig Glans;Kimia T Maleki

  • Nonstructural 3/4A protease of hepatitis C virus activates epithelial growth factor-induced signal transduction by cleavage of the T-cell protein tyrosine phosphatase.

    Erwin Daniel Brenndörfer;Juliane Karthe;Lars Frelin;Patricia Cebula

  • Combinatorial Approach to Hepadnavirus-Like Particle Vaccine Design

    Jean-Noel Billaud;Darrell Peterson;Margaret Barr;Antony Chen

  • Genetic immunization of chimpanzees chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus, using a recombinant retroviral vector encoding the hepatitis B virus core antigen.

    Matti Sällberg;Janice Hughes;Ali Javadian;Greg Ronlov

  • The hepatitis C virus and immune evasion: non-structural 3/4A transgenic mice are resistant to lethal tumour necrosis factor α mediated liver disease

    Lars Frelin;Erwin Daniel Brenndörfer;Gustaf Ahlen;Malin Weiland

Frequent Co-Authors

David R. Milich
David R. Milich Scripps Health
Ali Mirazimi
Ali Mirazimi Karolinska Institute
Ola Weiland
Ola Weiland Karolinska University Hospital
Dieter Häussinger
Dieter Häussinger Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Niranjan Y. Sardesai
Niranjan Y. Sardesai University of Pennsylvania
Lishan Su
Lishan Su University of Maryland, Baltimore
Friedemann Weber
Friedemann Weber University of Giessen
Magnus Gisslén
Magnus Gisslén Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Camille Sureau
Camille Sureau Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jean-Yves Bonnefoy
Jean-Yves Bonnefoy Salto Therapeutics

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