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JOURNAL OF AUTOIMMUNITY
Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 179-187Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1006/jaut.1999.0359
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autoantibody; autoantigen; autoimmunity; golgi complex
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- NCRR NIH HHS [M01RR00833] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAID NIH HHS [AI-39645] Funding Source: Medline
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Autoantibodies to subcellular organelles have been described in patients with various systemic rheumatic diseases and our laboratories have been focused on studies of the Golgi complex as the autoimmune target. We have previously isolated and described four of the five known Golgi autoantigens reported to date. During the characterization of Golgi autoantigen golgin-95/gm130, another human cDNA that shared a significant degree of similarity in both nucleotide and amino acid sequences was identified. Analysis of cDNAs from different libraries suggested that this is a distinct gene encoding a protein of 67 kDa which has four regions with sequence identity to gm130; ranging between 42 and 60%. Ln this report, we describe the complete cDNA encoding a closely related Golgi protein provisionally named golgin-67. Among a group of 84 human anti-Golgi sera, five (6%) were shown to recognize golgin-67. Anti-golgin-67 human sera and affinity purified rabbit antibody to the recombinant protein gave predominant Golgi staining. Golgin-67 is thus the smallest member of a growing family of Golgi autoantigens rich in alpha-helical coiled-coil domain. The current hypothesis for the generation of autoimmune antibody to the Golgi complex is discussed. (C) 2000 Academic Press.
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