Publications: Chopra, Abha
2013
Bronke, C., Almeida, C.M., McKinnon, E., Roberts, S.G., Keane, N.M., Chopra, A., Carlson, J.M., Heckerman, D., Mallal, S. and John, M. (2013) HIV escape mutations occur preferentially at HLA-binding sites of CD8 T-cell epitopes. AIDS, 27 (6). pp. 899-905.
2012
Keane, N., Almeida, C., Chopra, A., Cooper, D., Demaine, E., Mallal, S. and John, M. (2012) Early changes in the CD8 T Cell immunodominance hierarchy in primary HIV infection prior to seroconversion. Retrovirology, 9 (Suppl 2).
Keane, N.M., Roberts, S.G., Almeida, C.M., Krishnan, T., Chopra, A., Demaine, E., Laird, R., Tschochner, M., Carlson, J.M., Mallal, S., Heckerman, D., James, I. and John, M. (2012) High-avidity, high-IFNγ-producing CD8 T-cell responses following immune selection during HIV-1 infection. Immunology and Cell Biology, 90 (2). pp. 224-234.
Shasha, D., Meseret, Y., Chopra, A., Cooper, D., James, I., Herrmann, S., Wolday, D., Maayan, S., Mallal, S. and John, M. (2012) Unique footprints of HLA class I on clade C HIV-1 in a cohort of Ethiopian patients. In: 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2012), 5 - 8 March, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Desmond, C.P., Gaudieri, S., James, I.R., Pfafferott, K., Chopra, A., Lau, G.K., Audsley, J., Day, C., Chivers, S., Gordon, A., Revill, P.A., Bowden, S., Ayres, A., Desmond, P.V., Thompson, A.J., Roberts, S. K., Locarnini, S.A., Mallal, S.A. and Lewin, S.R. (2012) Viral adaptation to host immune responses occurs in chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, and adaptation is greatest in HBV e antigen-negative disease. Journal of Virology, 86 (2). pp. 1181-1192.
2011
Merani, S., Petrovic, D., James, I., Chopra, A., Cooper, D., Freitas, E., Rauch, A., di Iulio, J., John, M., Lucas, M., Fitzmaurice, K., McKiernan, S., Norris, S., Kelleher, D., Klenerman, P. and Gaudieri, S. (2011) Effect of immune pressure on hepatitis C virus evolution: Insights from a single-source outbreak. Hepatology, 53 (2). pp. 396-405.
Bull, R.A., Luciani, F., McElroy, K., Gaudieri, S., Pham, S.T., Chopra, A., Cameron, B., Maher, L., Dore, G.J., White, P.A. and Lloyd, A.R. (2011) Sequential bottlenecks drive viral evolution in early acute Hepatitis C virus infection. PLoS Pathogens, 7 (9). e1002243.
Almeida, C.M., Bronke, C., Roberts, S.G., McKinnon, E., Keane, N.M., Chopra, A., Kadie, C., Carlson, J., Haas, D. W., Riddler, S. A., Haubrich, R., Heckerman, D., Mallal, S. and John, M. (2011) Translation of HLA-HIV associations to the cellular level: HIV adapts to inflate CD8 T cell responses against Nef and HLA-adapted variant epitopes. The Journal of Immunology, 187 (5). pp. 2502-2513.
2010
John, M., Heckerman, D., James, I., Park, L.P., Carlson, J.M., Chopra, A., Gaudieri, S., Nolan, D., Haas, D.W., Riddler, S.A., Haubrich, R. and Mallal, S. (2010) Adaptive interactions between HLA and HIV-1: highly divergent selection imposed by HLA class I molecules with common supertype motifs. The Journal of Immunology, 184 (8). pp. 4368-4377.
Almeida, C.M., Roberts, S.G., Laird, R., McKinnon, E., Ahmad, I., Keane, N.M., Chopra, A., Kadie, C., Heckerman, D., Mallal, S. and John, M. (2010) Exploiting knowledge of immune selection in HIV-1 to detect HIV-specific CD8 T-cell responses. Vaccine, 28 (37). pp. 6052-6057.
Smyth, R.P., Schlub, T.E., Grimm, A., Venturi, V., Chopra, A., Mallal, S., Davenport, M.P. and Mak, J. (2010) Reducing chimera formation during PCR amplification to ensure accurate genotyping. Gene, 469 (1-2). pp. 45-51.
2009
Almeida, C.M., Roberts, S.G., Laird, R., McKinnon, E., Ahmad, I., Pfafferott, K., Turley, J., Keane, N.M., Lucas, A.D., Rushton, B.C., Chopra, A., Mallal, S. and John, M. (2009) Automation of the ELISpot assay for high-throughput detection of antigen-specific T-cell responses. Journal of Immunological Methods, 344 (1). pp. 1-5.
Tschochner, M., Chopra, A., Maiden, T.M., Ahmad, I.F., James, I., Furrer, H., Günthard, H., Mallal, S., Rauch, A. and John, M. (2009) Effects of HIV type-1 immune selection on susceptability to integrase inhibitor resistance. Antiviral Therapy, 14 (7). pp. 953-964.
Tschochner, M., James , I., Almeida, C., Keane, N., Roberts, S., Bronke, C., Chopra, A., Maiden, T., Ahmad, I., Gaudieri, S., Mallal, S., Rauch, A., John, M., Furrer, H. and Günthard, H. (2009) Effects of HIV-1 immune selection on susceptability to integrase inhibitor resistance. In: 12th European AIDS Conference (EACS) 2009, 11 - 14 November 2009, Cologne, Germany.
Chopra, A., Watson, M., Cooper, D., Leary, S., John, M. and Mallal, S. (2009) High throughput long amplicon sequencing, assembly and reference mapping of HIV genome using the GS FLX sequencer. In: 21st Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine (ASHM), 9 - 11 September, Brisbane, Australia.
Almeida, C., Bronke, C., Roberts, S., Cooper, D., Corkery, M., McKinnon, E., Ahmad, I., Keane, N., Chopra, A., Mallal, S., John, M. and Heckerman, D. (2009) Identification of multiple novel HIV-specific T-cell epitopes using HLA-associated HIV polymorphisms. In: 39th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Society for Immunology 2009, 6 - 10 December 2009, Gold Coast, QLD.
Keane, N.M., Roberts, S.G., Laird, R., Chopra, A., Krishnan, T., Almeida, C.M., Bronke, C., Mallal, S., James, I. and John, M. (2009) P09-15. Selection of higher avidity HLA-restricted T cell responses as a viral adaptation strategy. Retrovirology, 6 (Suppl 3, 22 October 2009). P128.
Keane, N., Roberts, S., Laird, R., Chopra, A., Krishnan, T., Almeida, C., Bronke, C., Mallal, S., James, I. and John, M. (2009) P09-15. Selection of higher avidity HLA-restricted T cell responses as a viral adaptation strategy. In: AIDS Vaccine 2009, 19 - 22 October 2009, Paris, France.
Roberts , S., Almeida, C., Bronke, C., Ahmad, I., Keane, N., Chopra, A., Mallal, S., John, M., Heckerman, D. and Mallal, S. (2009) Screening for HIV responses using optimal epitopes predicted by HLA-viral sequence polymorphism associations. In: 21st Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine (ASHM), 9 - 11 September, Brisbane, Australia.
