Drug-induced anti-histone autoantibodies display two patterns of reactivity with substructures of chromatin.

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Increasing evidence suggests that autoantibodies in the rheumatic diseases are a consequence of immune selection by self-material, but the nature of the in vivo immunogen is unknown. Insight into this problem may be obtained by measuring autoantibody binding to various forms of a target antigen. Antihistone antibodies arising as a side effect of therapy with various drugs offer an opportunity to explore this...

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