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Antigen presentation in celiac disease.
Current opinion in immunology - 1 Feb 2009
Qiao Shuo-Wang, Sollid Ludvig M, Blumberg Richard S
Abstract excerpt
Celiac disease is caused by an inappropriate immune response to ingested gluten proteins. As a dietary antigen, gluten undergoes extensive but incomplete proteolytic digestion in the intestinal lumen. The resultant peptide fragments of gluten require deamidation, but not necessarily further intracellular processing for presentation. Recent studies reveal why the disease associated HLA-DQ2 molecule is particularly...
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