Jonas Jw Kuiper, Jörg C Prinz, Efstratios Stratikos, Piotr Kuśnierczyk, Akiko Arakawa, Sebastian Springer, Dillon Mintoff, Ivan Padjen, Russka Shumnalieva, Seçil Vural, Ina Kötter, Marleen G van de Sande, Ayşe Boyvat, Joke H de Boer, George Bertsias, Niek de Vries, Charlotte Lm Krieckaert, Inês Leal, Nataša Vidovič Valentinčič, Ilknur Tugal-Tutkun, Hanane El Khaldi Ahanach, Félicie Costantino, Simon Glatigny, Danijela Mrazovac Zimak, Fabian Lötscher, Floor G Kerstens, Marija Bakula, Elsa Viera Sousa, Peter Böhm, Kees Bosman, Tony J Kenna, Simon J Powis, Maxime Breban, Ahmet Gul, John Bowes, Rik Ju Lories, Johannes Nowatzky, Gerrit Jan Wolbink, Dennis G McGonagle, Franktien Turkstra
The 'MHC-I (major histocompatibility complex class I)-opathy' concept describes a family of inflammatory conditions with overlapping clinical manifestations and a strong genetic link to the MHC-I antigen presentation pathway. Classical MHC-I-opathies such as spondyloarthritis, Behçet's disease, psoriasis and birdshot uveitis are widely recognised for their strong association with certain MHC-I alleles and gene variants of the antigen processing aminopeptidases ERAP1 and ERAP2 that implicates altered MHC-I peptide presentation to CD8+T cells in the pathogenesis...
July 2023: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases