Pemphigus autoantibodies generated through somatic mutations target the desmoglein-3 cis-interface

Pathogenic Anti-Desmoglein 3 mAbs Cloned from a Paraneoplastic Pemphigus Patient by Phage Display

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Epitope Spreading Is Rarely Found in Pemphigus Vulgaris by Large-Scale Longitudinal Study Using Desmoglein 2–Based Swapped Molecules

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Detecting selection in immunoglobulin sequences

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Differential regulation of self-reactivity discriminates between IgG+ human circulating memory B cells and bone marrow plasma cells

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Homologous regions of autoantibody heavy chain complementarity-determining region 3 (H-CDR3) in patients with pemphigus cause pathogenicity

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Desmosome Disassembly in Response to Pemphigus Vulgaris IgG Occurs in Distinct Phases and Can Be Reversed by Expression of Exogenous Dsg3

(2010) Jean M. Jennings et al.   JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY

Polyreactivity increases the apparent affinity of anti-HIV antibodies by heteroligation

(2010) Hugo Mouquet et al.   NATURE

Pathogenic Anti-Desmoglein MAbs Show Variable ELISA Activity because of Preferential Binding of Mature versus Proprotein Isoforms of Desmoglein 3

(2009) Preety M. Sharma et al.   JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY

Improved methods for detecting selection by mutation analysis of Ig V region sequences

(2008) Uri Hershberg et al.   INTERNATIONAL IMMUNOLOGY

Pemphigus Vulgaris IgG-induced Desmoglein-3 Endocytosis and Desmosomal Disassembly Are Mediated by a Clathrin- and Dynamin-independent Mechanism

(2008) Emmanuella Delva et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Genetic characterization of human Dsg3-specific B cells isolated by flow cytometry from the peripheral blood of patients with pemphigus vulgaris

(2008) Jun Yamagami et al.   JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGICAL SCIENCE

IMGT(R), the international ImMunoGeneTics information system(R)

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