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PTPN22 deficiency cooperates with the CD45 E613R allele to break tolerance on a non-autoimmune background.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Apr 2009
Zikherman Julie, Hermiston Michelle, Steiner David, Hasegawa Kiminori, Chan Andrew, Weiss Arthur
Abstract excerpt
Pep and CD45 are tyrosine phosphatases whose targets include the Src-family kinases, critical mediators of Ag receptor signaling. A polymorphism in PTPN22, the gene that encodes the human Pep orthologue Lyp, confers susceptibility to multiple human autoimmune diseases in the context of complex genetic backgrounds. However, the functional significance of the R620W risk allele is not clear. We report that...
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