Isolation and characterization of rare circulating autoantibody-producing cells from patients with muscle-specific kinase myasthenia gravis
K. Takata, P. Stathopoulos, M. Cao, M. Mane-Damas, M. Fichtner, E. S. Benotti, L. Jacobson, P. Waters, S. R. Irani, P. Martinez-Martinez, D. Beeson, M. Losen, A. Vincent, R. J. Nowak, K. C. O'Connor
The paper isolates and characterizes MuSK-specific autoantibody-producing B cells from MuSK myasthenia gravis patients, generating monoclonal antibodies that reveal distinct binding specificities and functional effects on AChR clustering.
bioRxiv · Dec 13, 2018Immunology