• Carbamylation of immunoglobulin abrogates activation of the classical complement pathway 

      Koro, Catalin; Bielecka, Ewa; Dahl-Knudsen, Anders; Enghild, Jan J; Scavenius, Carsten; Brun, Johan G; Binder, Veronika; Hellvard, Annelie; Bergum, Brith; Jonsson, Roland; Potempa, Jan; Blom, Anna M.; Mydel, Piotr Mateusz (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-11)
      Post-translational modifications of proteins significantly affect their structure and function. The carbamylation of positively charged lysine residues to form neutral homoitrulline occurs primarily under inflammatory ...
    • Complement C4 Copy Number Variation is Linked to SSA/Ro and SSB/La Autoantibodies in Systemic Inflammatory Autoimmune Diseases 

      Lundtoft, Christian; Pucholt, Pascal; Martin, Myriam; Bianchi, Matteo; Lundström, Emeli; Eloranta, Maija-Leena; Sandling, Johanna K.; Sjöwall, Christopher; Jönsen, Andreas; Gunnarsson, Iva; Rantapää-Dahlqvist, Solbritt; Bengtsson, Anders A.; Leonard, Dag; Baecklund, Eva; Jonsson, Roland; Hammenfors, Daniel; Forsblad-d'Elia, Helena; Eriksson, Per; Mandl, Thomas; Magnusson Bucher, Sara; Norheim, Katrine Brække; Johnsen, Svein Joar Auglæn; Omdal, Roald; Kvarnström, Marika; Wahren Herlenius, Marie Elisabeth; Notarnicola, Antonella; Andersson, Anna Helena; Molberg, Øyvind; Diederichsen, Louise Pyndt; Almlöf, Jonas; Syvänen, Ann-Christine; Kozyrev, Sergey V.; Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin; Rönnblom, Lars; Brokstad, Karl Albert; Skarstein, Kathrine; Jonsson, Malin Viktoria; Appel, Silke; Aqrawi, Lara A.; Jensen, Janicke Liaaen; Palm, Øyvind; Nilsson, Birgitta Blakstad; Blom, Anna M.; Lundberg, Ingrid E.; Nordmark, Gunnel; Diaz-Gallo, Lina Marcela; Svenungsson, Elisabet; Rönnblom, Lars (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Objective Copy number variation of the C4 complement components, C4A and C4B, has been associated with systemic inflammatory autoimmune diseases. This study was undertaken to investigate whether C4 copy number variation ...