Vitronectin-derived bioactive peptide prevents spondyloarthritis by modulating Th17/Treg imbalance in mice with curdlan-induced spondyloarthritis

• Hong Ki Min ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Ki Min, JeongWon Choi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Konkuk University Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1147-1046

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• JeongWon Choi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Ki Min, JeongWon Choi

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Rheumatism Research Center, Catholic Research Institute of Medical Science, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Seon-Yeong Lee,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Rheumatism Research Center, Catholic Research Institute of Medical Science, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• A. Ram Lee,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Rheumatism Research Center, Catholic Research Institute of Medical Science, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Biomedicine & Health Sciences, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Byung-Moo Min,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral Biochemistry and Program in Cancer and Developmental Biology, Dental Research Institute, Seoul National University School of Dentistry, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Mi-La Cho ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: iammila@catholic.ac.kr (MC); rapark@catholic.ac.kr (SP)

  ¶‡ MC and SP also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Rheumatism Research Center, Catholic Research Institute of Medical Science, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Biomedicine & Health Sciences, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Laboratory of Immune Network, Conversant Research Consortium in Immunologic disease, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Sung-Hwan Park

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: iammila@catholic.ac.kr (MC); rapark@catholic.ac.kr (SP)

  ¶‡ MC and SP also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Rheumatism Research Center, Catholic Research Institute of Medical Science, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1711-2060

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