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Effect of mutated transporters associated with antigen-processing 2 on characteristic major histocompatibility complex binding peptides: analysis using electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry.
Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM - 1 Jan 2004
Kageyama G, Kawano S, Kanagawa S, Kondo S, Sugita M, Nakanishi T, Shimizu A, Kumagai S
Abstract excerpt
A novel allele of transporters associated with the antigen-processing (TAP) 2 gene, TAP2*Bky2 (Val(577)), is significantly increased in Japanese patients with Sjögren's syndrome (SS), and has a strong association with SS-A/Ro autoantibody production in SS and autoantibody including anti-SS-A/Ro and anti-U1 RNP antibody in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). To determine the influence of this natural mutated TAP...
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