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A Post-Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanism Restricts Expression of the Paraneoplastic Cerebellar Degeneration Antigen cdr2 to Immune Privileged Tissues
15 Feb 1997
Abstract excerpt
Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration (PCD) is believed to be an autoimmune disorder initiated by the ectopic expression of a neuron-specific protein in breast and ovarian tumors. PCD antisera was used previously to identify several cerebellar degeneration-related (cdr) genes encoding putative PCD antigens. We have found that the cdr2 gene, which encodes a cytoplasmic leucine zipper protein of unknown function,...
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