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SUBMITTER: Tung KS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5330742 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tung Kenneth S K KS Harakal Jessica J Qiao Hui H Rival Claudia C Li Jonathan C H JC Paul Alberta G A AG Wheeler Karen K Pramoonjago Patcharin P Grafer Constance M CM Sun Wei W Sampson Robert D RD Wong Elissa W P EW Reddi Prabhakara P PP Deshmukh Umesh S US Hardy Daniel M DM Tang Huanghui H Cheng C Yan CY Goldberg Erwin E
The Journal of clinical investigation 20170220 3
Autoimmune responses to meiotic germ cell antigens (MGCA) that are expressed on sperm and testis occur in human infertility and after vasectomy. Many MGCA are also expressed as cancer/testis antigens (CTA) in human cancers, but the tolerance status of MGCA has not been investigated. MGCA are considered to be uniformly immunogenic and nontolerogenic, and the prevailing view posits that MGCA are sequestered behind the Sertoli cell barrier in seminiferous tubules. Here, we have shown that only some ...[more]