Dominant autoimmune epitopes recognized by pemphigus antibodies map to the N-terminal adhesive region of desmogleins

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 167, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 5439-5448

  Sekiguchi, M ^a   Futei, Y ^a   Fujii, Y ^a   Iwasaki, T ^a   Nishikawa, T ^a   Amagai, M ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESMOGLEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BACULOVIRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITOPE MAPPING; HUMAN; IMMUNOADSORPTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PEMPHIGUS FOLIACEUS; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VIRUS EXPRESSION;

EID: 0035500301     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.167.9.5439     Document Type: Article

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