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Comparative Study
. 2004 Apr;55(4):580-4.
doi: 10.1002/ana.20061.

Detection and characterization of MuSK antibodies in seronegative myasthenia gravis

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Comparative Study

Detection and characterization of MuSK antibodies in seronegative myasthenia gravis

John McConville et al. Ann Neurol. 2004 Apr.

Abstract

Antibodies to rat muscle specific kinase, MuSK, have recently been identified in some generalized "seronegative" myasthenia gravis (SNMG) patients, who are often females with marked bulbar symptoms. Using immunoprecipitation of (125)I-labelled-human MuSK, 27 of 66 (41%) seronegative patients were positive, but 18 ocular SNMG patients, 105 AChR antibody positive MG patients, and 108 controls were negative. The antibodies are of high affinity (Kds around 100 pM) with titers between 1 and 200 nM. They bind to the extracellular Ig-like domains of soluble or native MuSK. Surprisingly they are predominantly in the IgG4 subclass. MuSK-antibody associated MG may be different in etiological and pathological mechanisms.

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