The importance of the light chain for the epitope specificity of human anti-U1 small nuclear RNA autoantibodies present in systemic lupus erythematosus patients

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 163, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 3304-3312

  Hoet, René M A ^a,b,c   Pieffers, Martijn ^a   Stassen, Maurice H W ^a   Raats, Jos ^a   De Wildt, Ruud ^a,c   Pruijn, Ger J M ^a   Van Den Hoogen, Frank ^b   Van Venrooij, Walther J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MRC CENTRE FOR PROTEIN ENGINEERING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; EPITOPE; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; SOMATIC MUTATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

EID: 0033567978     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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