Specific immunoadsorption of pathogenic autoantibodies in pemphigus requires the entire ectodomains of desmogleins

Evidence for pathogenicity of autoreactive T cells in autoimmune bullous diseases shown by animal disease models

(2012) Hideyuki Ujiie et al.   EXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY

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

(2012) Giovanni Di Zenzo et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

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

(2012) Bungo Ohyama et al.   JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY

IgG Autoantibodies Against Desmocollin 3 in Pemphigus Sera Induce Loss of Keratinocyte Adhesion

(2011) David Rafei et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY

New targets of pemphigus vulgaris antibodies identified by protein array technology

(2011) Mina Kalantari-Dehaghi et al.   EXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY

Mapping of B cell epitopes on desmoglein 3 in pemphigus vulgaris patients by the use of overlapping peptides

(2011) Jenny Dworschak et al.   JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Immunoadsorption in dermatology

(2010) Enno Schmidt et al.   ARCHIVES OF DERMATOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Immune response towards the amino-terminus of desmoglein 1 prevails across different activity stages in nonendemic pemphigus foliaceus

(2010) P.T. Chan et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY

Novel ELISA systems for antibodies to desmoglein 1 and 3: correlation of disease activity with serum autoantibody levels in individual pemphigus patients

(2010) Enno Schmidt et al.   EXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY

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

(2010) Jun Yamagami et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Pathogenic Epitopes of Autoantibodies in Pemphigus Reside in the Amino-Terminal Adhesive Region of Desmogleins Which Are Unmasked by Proteolytic Processing of Prosequence

(2009) Mariko Yokouchi et al.   JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY

The desmosome and pemphigus

(2008) Jens Waschke   HISTOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY

Consensus statement on definitions of disease, end points, and therapeutic response for pemphigus

(2008) Dedee F. Murrell et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY

Isolation of Pathogenic Monoclonal Anti-Desmoglein 1 Human Antibodies by Phage Display of Pemphigus Foliaceus Autoantibodies

(2007) Ken Ishii et al.   JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY