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Cell surface expression of an endoplasmic reticulum resident heat shock protein gp96 triggers MyD88-dependent systemic autoimmune diseases.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 23 Dec 2003
Liu Bei, Dai Jie, Zheng Hong, Stoilova Diliana, Sun Shaoli, Li Zihai
Abstract excerpt
Heat shock proteins have been implicated as endogenous activators for dendritic cells (DCs). Without tissue distress or death, these intracellular molecules are inaccessible to surface receptor(s) on DCs, possibly to avoid uncontrolled DC activation and breakdown of immunologic tolerance. We herein addressed this hypothesis in transgenic mice by enforcing cell surface expression of gp96, a ubiquitous heat shock...
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