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ArticleThe Journal of clinical investigation1992

Human autoantibodies against desmoplakins in paraneoplastic pemphigus.

J R Oursler, R S Labib, L Ariss-Abdo, T Burke, E J O'Keefe, G J Anhalt

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Article in The Journal of clinical investigation, 1992. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

J R OurslerDepartment of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205.
R S Labib
L Ariss-Abdo
T Burke
E J O'Keefe
G J Anhalt
Johns Hopkins University · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

PATHOGENICITY OF PEMPHIGUS AND PEMPHIGOID ANTIBODIESK04AR001686 · NIAMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI ANHALT, GRANT J · 1987 to 1991
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PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF EXPERIMENTALLY INDUCED PEMPHIGUSR01AR032490 · NIAMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI ANHALT, GRANT J · 1986 to 1993
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CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PEMPHIGUS FOLIACEUS ANTIGENR01AR040018 · NIAMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI ANHALT, GRANT J · 1991 to 1993
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NIAMS NIH HHS KO4-AR01686NIAMS NIH HHS R01-AR-32490NIAMS NIH HHS R01-AR-40018
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recently, a previously unrecognized autoantibody mediated blistering disease, paraneoplastic pemphigus has been described. Paraneoplastic pemphigus is associated with lymphoid malignancies, thymomas, and poorly differentiated sarcomas. Serum of affected patients contain pathogenic autoantibodies that immunoprecipitate from normal keratinocytes a characteristic complex of four polypeptides with M(r) of 250, 230, 210, and 190 kD. As our preliminary studies indicated that the 250-kD and the 210-kD antigens comigrated with desmoplakins I and II, we investigated the possibility that autoantibodies against the desmoplakins were a component of this autoimmune syndrome. 11 sera from affected patients were tested by indirect immunofluorescence against desmosome containing tissues, immunoprecipitation of metabolically labeled keratinocytes, and Western immunoblotting of desmoplakins I and II that had been purified to homogeneity from pig tongue epithelium. By indirect immunofluorescence, 9 of 11 sera showed strong binding to epithelial and nonepithelial desmosomes, and 2 were weakly reactive. All 11 immunoprecipitated 250- and 210-kD bands of variable intensity that comigrated with bands identified by a murine monoclonal antidesmoplakin antibody, and immunoblotting confirmed binding of the serum autoantibodies to purified desmoplakins. This demonstrates that paraneoplastic pemphigus is the first human autoimmune syndrome in which autoantibodies against the desmoplakins are a prominent component of the humoral autoimmune response.

Indexed as

AnimalsAutoantibodiesBiomarkersBlotting, WesternCells, CulturedCytoskeletal ProteinsDesmoplakinsFluorescent Antibody TechniqueHumansKeratinocytesMiceMice, Inbred BALB CParaneoplastic SyndromesPemphigusPrecipitin TestsAutoantibodiesBiomarkersCytoskeletal ProteinsDesmoplakins

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PMID1601988
PMCPMC295873
OpenAlexW2021559685

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