Dwivedi, Nishant; Hedberg, Annica; Zheng, Ying Yi; Neeli, Indira; Satoh, Minoru; Morel, Laurence; Rekvig, Ole Petter; Radic, Marko (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-03-30)
Deimination, a posttranslational modification of arginine to citrulline carried out by
peptidylarginine deiminases, may compromise tolerance of self-antigens. Patients with
connective tissue autoimmunity, particularly rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus
erythematosus (SLE), or Felty’s syndrome, present with autoantibodies to deiminated
histones (dH), which thus form a category of antibodies ...