N-linked glycosylation on laminin γ1 influences recognition of anti-laminin γ1 pemphigoid autoantibodies

Xiaoguang Li, Hua Qian, Mamoru Takizawa, Hiroshi Koga, Atsunari Tsuchisaka, Norito Ishii, Taihei Hayakawa, Koji Ohara, Cassian Sitaru, Detlef Zillikens, Kiyotoshi Sekiguchi, Yoshiaki Hirako, Takashi Hashimoto*

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10 Citations (Scopus)
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Dermatological Science
Volume77
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)125-134
Number of pages10
ISSN0923-1811
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.01.2015

Funding

We gratefully appreciate Ms. Michiru Kubo for the technical assistance, and Ms. Mihoko Ikeda, Ms. Tomoko Tashima, Ms. Shoko Nakamura and Ms. Mami Nishida for the secretarial work. We thank the patients for their participation. We also thank Dr. Manuel Koch, University of Cologne, Germany, for the generous gift of the recombinant protein of N-terminal domain of mouse LMγ1. This study was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Nos. 20390308 , 20591331 , 21659271 , 23591634 , 23791298 , 23791299 , 23791300 , 23791301 , 24659534 , 24591672 , 24591640 , 24791185 , 26860906 ), and Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology ; and by “Research on Measures for Intractable Diseases” Project: matching fund subsidy ( H23-028 to K. Iwatsuki, and H24-038 to T. Hashimoto) from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare . The study was also supported by grants from the Kaibara Morikazu Medical Science Promotion Foundation , Ishibashi Foundation , Kanae Foundation for the Promotion of Medical Science , Takeda Science Foundation , Chuo Mitsui Trust and Banking Company, Limited , and Nakatomi Foundation . Appendix A

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