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Cross-restriction of a T cell clone to HLA-DR alleles associated with rheumatoid arthritis: clues to arthritogenic peptide motifs.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 May 1999
Hawke S, Matsuo H, Nicolle M, Wordsworth P, Corlett L, Spack E, Deshpande S, Driscoll P C, Willcox N
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OBJECTIVE: To identify distinctive sequence motifs required for productive peptide presentation by those HLA-DR alleles/DR4 subtypes that predispose to rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS: We tested 10 different HLA-DR4 subtypes for presentation of acetylcholine receptor peptides to 8 different DR4-restricted T cell lines/clones in proliferation assays. RESULTS: Seven of the 8 T cells depended absolutely on either...
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