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Zebrafish to humans: evolution of the 3-chain of type IV collagen and emergence of the autoimmune epitopes associated with Goodpasture syndrome
27 Oct 2005
Abstract excerpt
Goodpasture syndrome is an autoimmune vascular disease associated with kidney and lung failure, with pathogenic circulating autoantibodies targeted to a set of discontinuous epitope sequences within the noncollagenous domain-1 (NC1) of the alpha3 chain of type IV collagen (alpha3(IV)NC1), the Goodpasture autoantigen. We demonstrate that basement membrane extracted NC1 domain preparations from Caenorhabditis...
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