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Evidence for molecular mimicry between human T cell epitopes in rotavirus and pancreatic islet autoantigens.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 15 Feb 2010
Honeyman Margo C, Stone Natalie L, Falk Ben A, Nepom Gerald, Harrison Leonard C
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In type 1 diabetes, insulin-producing beta cells in the islets of the pancreas are destroyed by autoreactive T cells. Rotavirus (RV) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes. Peptides in VP7, a major immunogenic protein of RV, have high sequence similarity to T cell epitope pept...
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