Protein tyrosine phosphatase PTPN22 is dispensable for dendritic cell antigen processing and promotion of T-cell activation by dendritic cells.

The PTPN22R620W single nucleotide polymorphism increases the risk of developing multiple autoimmune diseases including type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. PTPN22 is highly expressed in antigen presenting cells (APCs) where the expression of the murine disease associated variant ortholog...

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Main Authors: Fiona Clarke, Christine K Jordan, Enrique Gutiérrez-Martinez, Jack A Bibby, Cristina Sanchez-Blanco, Georgina H Cornish, Xuezhi Dai, David J Rawlings, Rose Zamoyska, Pierre Guermonprez, Andrew P Cope, Harriet A Purvis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186625