Cloning of follistatin-related protein as a novel autoantigen in systemic rheumatic diseases

International Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1305-1314

  Tanaka, Masao ^a   Ozaki, Shoichi ^a   Osakada, Fumio ^b   Mori, Kiyoshi ^a   Okubo, Mitsuo ^c   Nakao, Kazuwa ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANEKA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoantibodies; Autoimmune disease; Expression cloning; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM ION; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FOLLISTATIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DNA LIBRARY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOBLAST; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYNOVIAL FLUID; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; AUTOANTIGENS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EPITOPE MAPPING; FOLLISTATIN-RELATED PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MICE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; RABBITS; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

EID: 0031715096     PISSN: 09538178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intimm/10.9.1305     Document Type: Article

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