Striational autoantibodies in myasthenia gravis patients recognize I-band titin epitopes

Titins: Giant Proteins in Charge of Muscle Ultrastructure and Elasticity

Siegfried Labeit, Bernhard Kolmerer · Science · 1995 · 1.2K citations

Titin Filament Contributes, Giant Proteins, Engineering +18

Spreading of T-cell autoimmunity to cryptic determinants of an autoantigen

Paul Lehmann, Thomas G. Forsthuber, Alexander Miller et al. · Nature · 1992 · 1.2K citations

Cryptic Determinants, Autoimmune Disease, Autoantibody Production +9

The organization of titin filaments in the half-sarcomere revealed by monoclonal antibodies in immunoelectron microscopy: a map of ten nonrepetitive epitopes starting at the Z line extends close to the M line.

Dieter O. Fürst, Mary Osborn, Rüdiger Nave et al. · The Journal of Cell Biology · 1988 · 619 citations · Full text

Fluorescence Microscopy, Immunocytochemical Technique, Medicine +15

Titin: major myofibrillar components of striated muscle.

K Wang, John E. McClure, Aye Tu · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1979 · 536 citations · Full text

Cardiac Muscle, Breast Myofibrils, Muscle Function +19

Immunofluorescence Demonstration of a Muscle Binding, Complement-Fixing Serum Globulin Fraction in Myasthenia Gravis.

A Strauss, Beatrice Carrier Seegal, Konrad C. Hsu et al. · Experimental Biology and Medicine · 1960 · 398 citations

Muscle Function, Autoimmune Disease, Allergy +14