Upregulation of Immunoproteasome Subunits in Myositis Indicates Active Inflammation with Involvement of Antigen Presenting Cells, CD8 T-Cells and IFNγ

Khetam Ghannam, Lorena Martinez‐Gamboa, Lydia Spengler, Sabine Krause, Biljana Smiljanovic, Marc Bonin, Salyan Bhattarai, Andreas Grützkau, G.-R. Burmester, Thomas Häupl,

PLoS ONE · 2014 · 44 citations · 38 references

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Abstract

Immunoproteasomes seem to indicate IIM activity and suggest that dominant involvement of antigen processing and presentation may qualify these diseases exemplarily for the evolving therapeutic concepts of immunoproteasome specific inhibition.

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