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Human genome search in celiac disease: mutated gliadin T-cell-like epitope in two human proteins promotes T-cell activation.
Journal of molecular biology - 7 Jun 2002
Kumar Rajesh, Eastwood Amy L, Brown Milton L, Laurie Gordon W
Abstract excerpt
Discovery of a number of novel and known human genes whose protein products bear striking similarity to two or more wheat gliadin domains raised the possibility that human intestinal non-HLA peptides homologous to celiac T-cell epitopes could play a role in non-HLA gene specification in celiac disease. Database searching of the entire human genome identified only 11 gut-expressed proteins with high T-cell epitope...
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