The Plant Lectin Wheat Germ Agglutinin Inhibits the Binding of Pemphigus Foliaceus Autoantibodies to Desmoglein 1 in a Majority of Patients and Prevents Pathomechanisms of Pemphigus Foliaceus In Vitro and In Vivo

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 171, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6244-6250

  Ortiz Urda, Susana ^a,b   Elbe Bürger, Adelheid ^a   Smolle, Josef ^c   Marquart, Yvonne ^a   Chudnovsky, Yakov ^b   Ridky, Todd W ^b   Bernstein, Pamela ^b   Wolff, Klaus ^a   Rappersberger, Klemens ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; DESMOGLEIN 1; PLANT LECTIN; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ;

ACANTHOLYSIS; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BLISTER; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDERMIS; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; KERATINOCYTE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PEMPHIGUS FOLIACEUS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CULTURE;

EID: 0344585382     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.11.6244     Document Type: Article

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