Molecular Mimicry
General
- Autoimmunity due to molecular mimicry as a cause of neurological disease
- Cross-Reactivity With Drugs at the T Cell Level
- Disease mimicry—a pathogenetic concept for T cell-mediated autoimmune disorders triggered by molecular mimicry?
- Induction, acceleration or prevention of autoimmunity by molecular mimicry
- Insights into autoimmunity gained from structural analysis of MHC–peptide complexes
- Microorganisms and autoimmunity: making the barren field fertile?
- Molecular Mimicry and Autoimmune Diseases
Specific to MS
- A study of molecular mimicry and immunological cross-reactivity between hepatitis B surface antigen and myelin mimics
- Identification of High Potency Microbial and Self Ligands for a Human Autoreactive Class II–restricted T Cell Clone
- Increased frequency and broadened specificity of latent EBV nuclear antigen-1-specific T cells in multiple sclerosis
- Molecular Mimicry and Multiple Sclerosis: Degenerate T-Cell Recognition and the Induction of Autoimmunity
- Molecular mimicry in multiple sclerosis
- Molecular Mimicry Revisited: Gut Bacteria and Multiple Sclerosis
- Molecular Mimicry, Bystander Activation, or Viral Persistence: Infections and Autoimmune Disease
- Multiple sclerosis and virus induced immune responses: Autoimmunity can be primed by molecular mimicry and augmented by bystander activation
- Autoantibodies against HSP70 family proteins were detected in the cerebrospinal fluid from patients with multiple sclerosis
- Can Virus Infections Trigger Autoimmune Disease?
- Cross-reactivity between related sequences found in Acinetobacter sp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa, myelin basic protein and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein in multiple sclerosis
- In Children with Autoimmune Disease, Response Starts Early
- Molecular Mimicry and Antigen-Specific T Cell Responses in Multiple Sclerosis and Chronic CNS Lyme Disease
- Multiple Sclerosis, Sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy: Are they Autoimmune Diseases Evoked by Acinetobacter Microbes Showing Molecular Mimicry to Brain Antigens?
- Specificity and degeneracy: T cell recognition in CNS autoimmunity
- Antibodies Directed Against Rubella Virus Induce Demyelination in Aggregating Rat Brain Cell Cultures
- Antibody Cross-Reactivity between Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein and the Milk Protein Butyrophilin in Multiple Sclerosis
- Butyrophilin, a Milk Protein, Modulates the Encephalitogenic T Cell Response to Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis
- Cross-Reactive TCR Responses to Self Antigens Presented by Different MHC Class II Molecules
- High level of cross-reactivity in influenza virus hemagglutinin-specific CD4+ T-cell response: Implications for the initiation of autoimmune response in multiple sclerosis
- Human Herpesvirus 6 and Multiple Sclerosis: Potential Mechanisms for Virus-induced Disease
- Innate and adaptive immune requirements for induction of autoimmune demyelinating disease by molecular mimicry
- Molecular Mimicry in Multiple Sclerosis
- T Cells of Multiple Sclerosis Patients Target a Common Environmental Peptide that Causes Encephalitis in Mice
- The initiation of the autoimmune response in multiple sclerosis
- Tolerance induction by molecular mimicry: prevention and suppression of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis with the milk protein butyrophilin
Other Autoimmune Diseases
- “Viral déjà vu” elicits organ-specific immune disease independent of reactivity to self
- A Type 1 Diabetes-related Protein from Wheat (Triticum aestivum)
- Epstein-Barr virus and molecular mimicry in systemic lupus erythematosus
- Evidence for monoclonal expansion of synovial T cells bearing Va2.1/V/?5.S gene segments and recognizing a synthetic peptide that shares homology with a number of putative autoantigens
- Induction of cardiac autoimmunity in Chagas heart disease: A case for molecular mimicry
- Is celiac disease due to molecular mimicry between gliadin peptide-HLA class II molecule-T cell interactions and those of some unidentified superantigen?
- Molecular mimicry in the autoimmune pathogenesis of rheumatic heart disease
- A viral epitope that mimics a self antigen can accelerate but not initiate autoimmune diabetes
- Autoimmune uveitis and antigenic mimicry of environmental antigens
- Autoimmune uveitis induced by molecular mimicry of peptides from rotavirus, bovine casein and retinal S-antigen
- Cytomegalovirus in autoimmunity: T cell crossreactivity to viral antigen and autoantigen glutamic acid decarboxylase
- Effect of coincident enterovirus infection and cows’ milk exposure on immunisation to insulin in early infancy
- Expanded T cells from pancreatic lymph nodes of type 1 diabetic subjects recognize an insulin epitope
- Insulin trigger for diabetes
- Modulation of immune function by dietary lectins in rheumatoid arthritis
- Molecular Mimicry in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Revisited: T-Cell Clones to GAD65 Peptides with Sequence Homology to Coxsackie or Proinsulin Peptides do not Crossreact with Homologous Counterpart
- Molecular Mimicry in Type 1 Diabetes; Immune Cross-Reactivity between Islet Autoantigen and Human Cytomegalovirus but Not Coxsackie Virus
- Prime role for an insulin epitope in the development of type 1 diabetes in NOD mice
- The Guillain–Barre´ syndrome: a true case of molecular mimicry