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Insights from the predicted epitope similarity between Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulent factors and its human homologs
31 Dec 2015
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is known to be associated with several autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematous, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis. This is attributed to sequence similarity between virulent factors and human proteins. Therefore, it is of interest to identify such regions in the virulent factors to assess potential autoimmune related information. M. tb specific virulent factors...
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