A Possible Link between Infection with Burkholderia Bacteria and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Based on Epitope Mimicry

We previously demonstrated that purified polyclonal and monoclonal anti-dsDNA antibodies bind a 15-mer peptide ASPVTARVLWKASHV in ELISA and Dot blot. This 15-mer peptide partial sequence ARVLWKASH shares similarity with burkholderia bacterial cytochrome B 561 partial sequence ARVLWRATH. In this stud...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Wei, Reichlin, Morris
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2494591/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18682819
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/683489

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