Abstracts tagged "antigen RA and rheumatoid arthritis (RA)"

Abstract Number: 1099 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Single Cell RNA-Seq Analysis of Citrullinated Alpha-Enolase Peptide-Specific B Cells in RA
Yogita Ghodke-Puranik¹, Na Zhang², Jessica M. Dorschner¹, Anna Shmagel³, Zhongbo Jin¹, Philip Titcombe⁴, Timothy B. Niewold¹ and Daniel Mueller⁵, ¹Division of Rheumatology and Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, ³Rheumatic & Autoimmune Diseases, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, ⁴University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, ⁵Medicine/Rheumatic & Autoimmune Diseases, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN
Background/Purpose: The high prevalence of citrullinated protein antibodies and improvement following rituximab anti-CD20 therapy both suggest that B cells are important in the pathogenesis of…