Comment on "Chaperone activity of α B-crystallin is responsible for its incorrect assignment as an autoantigen in multiple sclerosis"

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-

  Van Noort, Johannes M ^a   Amor, Sandra ^b,c   Bajramovic, Jeffrey J ^d  

^a Delta Crystallon BV   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; BETA CRYSTALLIN; CHAPERONE;

ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; CELL ACTIVATION; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; LETTER; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELIN SHEATH; OLIGODENDROGLIA; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ALPHA-CRYSTALLIN B CHAIN; AUTOANTIGENS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 79960415863     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1190025     Document Type: Letter

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