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Article History

First Online: 22 February 2018

Competing interests

: A.S.P. has previously served as a consultant for Syntimmune and TG Therapeutics and receives or has received grants or research support from the US NIH (R01-AR057001, R56-AR064220 and R01-068288), the Dermatology Foundation and Sanofi. She is co-inventor on a patent related to chimeric immunoreceptor therapy of pemphigus. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the US NIH. C.T.E. has received grants or research support from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (EL711/1-1) and is co-inventor on a patent related to chimeric immunoreceptor therapy of pemphigus. H.T. receives grants from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. D.Z. is an advisory board member for Roche Pharma, and a consultant for Euroimmun, Almirall, UCB, Fresenius and arGEN-X. He received speakers honoraria and/or travel/accommodations/meeting compensation from Biotest, Fresenius, Miltenyi, Roche Pharma, Biogen Idec, AbbVie, UCB, Janssen and grants or research support from Euroimmun, Miltenyi, Fresenius, Biotest, Dompe, Almirall, Biogen and Roche. He holds the patent Euroimmun: DE 10 2006 059 574 A1. M.A. has received speaker honoraria and grants from Nihon Pharmaceutical, research support from Medical & Biological Laboratories, Health Sciences Research Grants for Research on Rare and Intractable Diseases from Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, and grants from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Agency for Medical Research and Development. M.K. and J.Y. declare no competing interests.