Cross-immunoreactivity between bacterial aquaporin-Z and human aquaporin-4: Potential relevance to neuromyelitis optica

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 189, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4602-4611

  Ren, Zhihua ^a   Wang, Yan ^a   Duan, Tao ^a   Patel, Jilpa ^a   Liggett, Thomas ^a   Loda, Eileah ^a   Brahma, Sarang ^a   Goswami, Rajendra ^a   Grouse, Carrie ^a   Byrne, Richard ^a   Stefoski, Dusan ^a   Javed, Adil ^b   Miller, Stephen D ^c   Balabanov, Roumen ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; AQUAPORIN 4; AQUAPORIN Z; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; CYTOTOXICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOASSAY; INFECTION; MOUSE; MYELOOPTIC NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AQUAPORIN 4; AQUAPORINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CROSS REACTIONS; CYTOTOXICITY TESTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROMYELITIS OPTICA; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN;

EID: 84867919274     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1200486     Document Type: Article

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