Commensal orthologs of the human autoantigen Ro60 as triggers of autoimmunity in lupus

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 434, 2018, Pages

  Greiling, Teri M ^a   Dehner, Carina ^a   Chen, Xinguo ^a,b   Hughes, Kevin ^a,b   Iñiguez, Alonso J ^a   Boccitto, Marco ^a,b   Ruiz, Daniel Zegarra ^a   Renfroe, Stephen C ^a   Vieira, Silvio M ^a   Ruff, William E ^a   Sim, Soyeong ^a,b   Kriegel, Christina ^a   Glanternik, Julia ^a   Chen, Xindi ^a   Girardi, Michael ^a   Degnan, Patrick ^a   Costenbader, Karen H ^a,c   Goodman, Andrew L ^a   Wolin, Sandra L ^a,b   Kriegel, Martin A ^a,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RO60 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SS-A ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMENSAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; FEMALE; GERMFREE MOUSE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE COMPLEX DEPOSITION; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROFLORA; MOUSE; MOUTH FLORA; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FLORA; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; ANIMAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; METABOLISM; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUPUS NEPHRITIS; MALE; MICE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 85044764454     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aan2306     Document Type: Article

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