Browsing by Subject "vinculin"

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      Crossreactivity to vinculin and microbes provides a molecular basis for HLA-based protection against rheumatoid arthritis 

      Van Heemst, J.; Jansen, D. T. S. L.; Polydorides, Savvas; Moustakas, Antonis K.; Bax, M.; Feitsma, A. L.; Bontrop-Elferink, D. G.; Baarse, M.; Van Der Woude, D.; Wolbink, G. -J; Rispens, T.; Koning, F.; De Vries, R. R. P.; Papadopoulos, George K.; Archontis, Georgios Z.; Huizinga, T. W.; Toes, R. E. (2015)
      The HLA locus is the strongest risk factor for anti-citrullinated protein antibody (ACPA) + rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Despite considerable efforts in the last 35 years, this association is poorly understood. Here we ...
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      Making the Connection: Ciliary Adhesion Complexes Anchor Basal Bodies to the Actin Cytoskeleton 

      Antoniades, Ioanna; Stylianou, Panayiota; Skourides, Paris A. (2014)
      Cilia have been associated with diverse developmental and physiological processes, and defects in cilia underlie a number of genetic conditions. Several lines of evidence support a critical role of the actin cytoskeleton ...
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      Proteus and the design of ligand binding sites 

      Polydorides, Savvas; Michael, E.; Mignon, D.; Druart, Karen; Archontis, Georgios Z.; Simonson, T. (2016)
      This chapter describes the organization and use of Proteus, a multitool computational suite for the optimization of protein and ligand conformations and sequences, and the calculation of pKα shifts and relative binding ...