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Collagen XVII Processing and Blistering Skin Diseases.
Acta dermato-venereologica - 12 Feb 2020
Nishie Wataru
Abstract excerpt
Collagen XVII (COL17) is a hemidesmosomal transmembrane protein in the skin, which, in several autoimmune blistering skin diseases, may be targeted by autoantibodies. In addition, loss-of-function mutations in the COL17A1 gene induce a subtype of junctional epidermolysis bullosa. The extracellular domain of COL17 can be physiologically cleaved from the cell surface by ADAM family proteins in a process known as...
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