BALB/c Mice Produce Blister-Causing Antibodies Upon Immunization with a Recombinant Human Desmoglein 3 (1) Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is an Ab-mediated blistering disease of mucocutaneous surfaces….

The 270 kDa splice variant of erythrocyte β-spectrin(βΙΣ2) segregates in vivo and in vitro to specific domains of cerebellar neurons (1) Nervous tissue displays many…

Proteomics of Stored Red Blood Cell Membrane and Storage-Induced Microvesicles Reveals the Association of Flotillin-2 With Band 3 Complexes(1) The organization of the RBC membrane…

Spectrin: Structure, function and disease (1) Spectrin is a cytoskeletal protein that was first discovered in erythrocytes and is important for maintaining the stability, structure,…

Human N-methyl D-aspartate receptor antibodies alter memory and behaviour in mice (1) Memory, learning, and behaviour depend on the proper function of the excitatory glutamate…

IL-10 and IL-10 receptor defects in humans (1) Interleukin (IL)-10 may be considered the most important anti-inflammatory cytokine in humans. Secreted by a variety of…

Evidence that Anti-Type VII Collagen Antibodies Are Pathogenic and Responsible for the Clinical, Histological, and Immunological Features of Epidermolysis Bullosa Acquisita (1) Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita…

Repetitive Immunization Breaks Tolerance to Type XVII Collagen and Leads to Bullous Pemphigoid in Mice (1) Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is a subepidermal autoimmune blistering disease…

Analysis of erythrocyte membrane proteins in patients with hereditary spherocytosis and other types of haemolytic anaemia (1) Hereditary spherocytosis (HS) occurs frequently among patients with…

Humanization of autoantigen (1) Vertebrates are capable of both adaptive and innate immunity, which is common to all metazoans, and are consequently exposed to autoimmune…