Four IgG anti-islet human monoclonal antibodies isolated from a type 1 diabetes patient recognize distinct epitopes of glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 and are somatically mutated

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 156, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 3541-3549

  Madec, Anne Marie ^a   Rousset, Françoise ^b   Ho, Stephen ^b   Robert, François ^a   Thivolet, Charles ^a   Orgiazzi, Jacques ^a   Lebecque, Serge ^b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; AUTOANTIGENS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HUMANS; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION;

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