Abundant intracellular IgG in enterocytes and endoderm lacking FcRn.

FcRn, a non-classical MHCI molecule, transports IgG from mother to young and regulates the rate of IgG degradation throughout life. Brambell proposed a mechanism that unified these two functions, saying that IgG was pinocytosed nonspecifically by the cell into an FcRn-expressing endosome, where, at...

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Main Authors: Sudhasri Mohanty, Jonghan Kim, Latha P Ganesan, Gary S Phillips, John M Robinson, Clark L Anderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0070863
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