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Biomarkers in Immunoglobulin Light Chain Amyloidosis
Klinicka Onkologie, 2017 Immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis (AL amyloidosis - ALA) is a monoclonal gammopathy characterized by presence of aberrant plasma cells producing amyloidogenic immunoglobulin light chains. This leads to formation of amyloid fibrils in various organs and tissues, mainly in heart and kidney, and causes their dysfunction.
Kufova, Z. +17 more
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Immunoglobulin Light Chains Generate Hydrogen Peroxide [PDF]
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2007 As low molecular weight proteins, restriction from glomerular filtration is minimized, permitting significant amounts of Ig light chains to be endocytosed into the proximal tubule epithelium, particularly in plasma cell dyscrasias. Recent studies have shown that this effect of concentrating light chains within the proximal tubule alters cell function ...
Pei-Xuan, Wang, Paul W, Sanders
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RAGs and Regulation of Autoantibodies [PDF]
, 2004 Autoreactive antibodies are etiologic agents in a number of autoimmune diseases. Like all other antibodies these antibodies are produced in developing B cells by V(D)J recombination in the bone marrow.
Casellas, Rafael +4 more
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Structural insights and biomedical potential of IgNAR scaffolds from sharks [PDF]
, 2014 Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Barelle, Caroline +5 more
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A Hands-on Activity for V(D)J Recombination in an Undergraduate Immunology Class
Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2023 This learning activity teaches the difficult concept of V(D)J recombination as it occurs in B cells. Following the traditional lecture, this hands-on activity uses pipe cleaners of various colors representing variable, joining, and diversity gene ...
Kelly N. Hallstrom, Gwendowlyn S. Knapp
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Hereditary systemic immunoglobulin light-chain amyloidosis [PDF]
Blood, 2015 Key PointsProtein and DNA analyses reveal that mutation in the immunoglobulin κ light-chain constant region gene may cause hereditary amyloidosis. Sequencing of immunoglobulin light-chain constant region genes is indicated for patients with AL amyloidosis and no evidence of a plasma cell dyscrasia.
Benson, Merrill D. +2 more
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2016 Antibody variable regions are composed of a heavy and a light chain and in humans there are two light chain isotypes: kappa and lambda. Despite their importance in receptor editing, the light chain is often overlooked in the antibody literature, with the
Catherine L Townsend +7 more
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BioMedInformatics, 2023 Human immunoglobulin allotypes are allelic antigenic determinants (or “markers”) determined serologically, classically by hemagglutination inhibition, on the human immunoglobulin (IG) or antibody heavy and light chains. The allotypes have been identified
Marie-Paule Lefranc, Gérard Lefranc
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Recommendations for use of free light chain assay in monoclonal gammopathies [PDF]
Journal of Medical Biochemistry, 2010 The serum immunoglobulin free light chain assay measures levels of free k and l immunoglobulin light chains. There are three major indications for the free light chain assay in the evaluation and management of multiple myeloma and related plasma cell ...
Radović Vesna V.
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Comparative Aspects of Immunoglobulin Gene Rearrangement Arrays in Different Species
Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 Studies in humans and mice indicate the critical role of the surrogate light chain in the selection of the productive immunoglobulin repertoire during B cell development.
Marek Sinkora +5 more
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