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Restricted CDR3 length of the heavy chain is characteristic of six randomly isolated disease-associated VH J558+ IgM autoantibodies in lupus prone motheaten mice.
International immunology - 1 May 1997
Lipsanen V, Walter B, Emara M, Siminovitch K, Lam J, Kaushik A
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the origin of disease-associated IgM autoantibodies (AAb), we compared the genetic and structural characteristics of IgM AAb from autoimmune prone motheaten (mev) mice with natural autoantibodies (NAAb) from normal background C57/BL6 strain. Six hybridoma-derived IgM molecules each were obtained both from mev mice, at the terminal stage of systemic autoimmune disease, and from mitogen-stimulated...
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