Herpesviruses, autoimmunity and epilepsy: Peptide sharing and potential cross-reactivity with human synaptic proteins.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.autrev.2019.102367
Abstract: Aggregation of immuno-proteomic data reveal that i) herpesviruses and synaptic proteins -in particular Synapsin-1 and Bassoon - share a large number of hexapeptides that also recur in hundreds of epitopes experimentally validated as immunopositive in… read more here.
Keywords: epilepsy peptide; synaptic proteins; herpesviruses autoimmunity; cross ... See more keywords