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Spontaneous autoimmune disease in Fc(gamma)RIIB-deficient mice results from strain-specific epistasis.
Immunity - 1 Aug 2000
Bolland S, Ravetch J V
Abstract excerpt
By virtue of its ability to couple the BCR to an inhibitory pathway, FcgammaRIIB can potentially determine the fate of B cells upon IgG immune complex engagement. We now provide evidence for FcgammaRIIB as a component of a peripheral tolerance pathway with the observation that RIIB-/- mice develop autoantibodies and autoimmune glomerulonephritis in a strain-dependent fashion. Transfer of the autoimmune phenotype...
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