A SmD peptide induces better antibody responses to other proteins within the small nuclear ribonucleoprotein complex than to SmD protein via intermolecular epitope spreading

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2565-2571

  Deshmukh, Umesh S ^a   Bagavant, Harini ^a   Sim, Davis ^a   Pidiyar, Vyankatesh ^a   Shu, Man Fu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; PROTEIN SM; PROTEIN SMB; PROTEIN SMD; RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITOPE MAPPING; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 33846908279     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.178.4.2565     Document Type: Article

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