Dominant Autoimmune Epitopes Recognized by Pemphigus Antibodies Map to the N-Terminal Adhesive Region of Desmogleins
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Dominant autoimmune epitopes recognized by pemphigus antibodies map to the N-terminal adhesive region of desmogleins.
Desmoglein (Dsg) is a cadherin-type adhesion molecule found in desmosomes. Dsg1 and Dsg3 are the target Ags in the autoimmune blistering diseases pemphigus foliaceus (PF) and pemphigus vulgaris (PV), respectively. To map conformational epitopes of Dsg1 and Dsg3 in PF and PV, we generated Dsg1- and Dsg3-domain-swapped molecules and point-mutated Dsg3 molecules with Dsg1-specific residues by bacu...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Immunology
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0022-1767,1550-6606
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.167.9.5439