The interplay between citrullination and HLA-DRB1 polymorphism in shaping peptide binding hierarchies in rheumatoid arthritis.
Ting, Y.T., Petersen, J., Ramarathinam, S.H., Scally, S.W., Loh, K.L., Thomas, R., Suri, A., Baker, D.G., Purcell, A.W., Reid, H.H., Rossjohn, J.(2018) J Biol Chem 293: 3236-3251
- PubMed: 29317506 
- DOI: 10.1074/jbc.RA117.001013
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
6BIJ, 6BIL, 6BIN, 6BIR, 6BIV, 6BIX, 6BIY, 6BIZ - PubMed Abstract: 
The HLA-DRB1 locus is strongly associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) susceptibility, whereupon citrullinated self-peptides bind to HLA-DR molecules bearing the shared epitope (SE) amino acid motif. However, the differing propensity for citrullinated/non-citrullinated self-peptides to bind given HLA-DR allomorphs remains unclear ...