Cloning of follistatin-related protein as a novel autoantigen in systemic rheumatic diseases
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Cloning of follistatin-related protein as a novel autoantigen in systemic rheumatic diseases.
In an attempt to identify autoantigens of synovium in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), we constructed lambda phage expression cDNA libraries from synovium and screened them by IgG purified from synovial fluids, both of which were derived from RA patients. As a result of this unique combination of the libraries and probes, we cloned follistatin-related protein (FRP) as a novel autoantigen in systemic ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Immunology
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1460-2377
DOI: 10.1093/intimm/10.9.1305