HARRY RATRIE III

Research Interests: Cell and Molecular Biology of Chromosome Structure

Autoimmune Disease Mechanisms

Representative Publications:

Saitoh, H., Tomkiel, J., Cooke, C.A., Ratrie, H., Maurer, M., Rothfield, N.F., & Earnshaw, W.C. (1992) CENP-C, an autoantigen in scleroderma, is a component of the human inner kinetochore plate. Cell 70: 115-125.

Provost, T.T., Levin, L.S., Watson, R.M., Mayo, M. & Ratrie, H. (1991) Detection of anti-Ro (SSA) antibodies by gel double diffusion and a sandwich Elisa in systemic and subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus and Sjogren's syndrome. J. Autoimmun. 4: 87-96.

Anhalt, G.J., Kim, S., Stanley, J.R., Korman, N.J., Jabs, D.A., Kory, M., Izumi, H., Ratrie, H., Mutasim, D., Ariss-Abdo, L. & Labib, R.S. (1990) Paraneoplastic pemphigus. An auto-immune disease associated with neoplasia. New England J. Med. 323: 1729-1735.

D'Arpa, P., Machlin, P.S., Ratrie, H., Rothfield, N.F., Cleveland, D.W. & Earnshaw, W.C. (1988) Molecular cloning of human topoisomerase I: catalytic activity of a 73 kDa carboxy terminal fragment. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 85: 2543-2547.