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A small shared epitope-mimetic compound potently accelerates osteoclast-mediated bone damage in autoimmune arthritis.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Sept 2013
Fu Jiaqi, Ling Song, Liu Ying, Yang Jianyi, Naveh Shirly, Hannah Margaret, Gilon Chaim, Zhang Yang, Holoshitz Joseph
Abstract excerpt
We have recently proposed that the shared epitope (SE) may contribute to rheumatoid arthritis pathogenesis by acting as a ligand that activates proarthritogenic signal transduction events. To examine this hypothesis, in this study we characterized a novel small SE-mimetic compound, c(HS4-4), containing the SE primary sequence motif QKRAA, which was synthesized using a backbone cyclization method. The SE-mimetic...
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