Cutting edge: Granzyme B proteolysis of a neuronal glutamate receptor generates an autoantigen and is modulated by glycosylation

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 1433-1438

  Gahring, L C ^a   Carlson, N G ^a   Meyer, E L ^a   Rogers, S W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GRANZYME B; SERINE PROTEINASE; AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR IONOTROPIC, AMPA 3; GRANZYME; GZMB PROTEIN, HUMAN; GZMB PROTEIN, MOUSE; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN CORTEX; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; ENCEPHALITIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HYDROLYSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ENCEPHALITIS; GLYCOSYLATION; GRANZYMES; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0035253348     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.166.3.1433     Document Type: Article

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