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Behçet Disease serum is immunoreactive to neurofilament medium which share common epitopes to bacterial HSP-65, a putative trigger.
Journal of autoimmunity - 1 Nov 2017
Lule S, Colpak A I, Balci-Peynircioglu B, Gursoy-Ozdemir Y, Peker S, Kalyoncu U, Can A, Tekin N, Demiralp D, Dalkara T
Abstract excerpt
Autoimmune and dysimmune inflammatory mechanisms on a genetically susceptible background are implicated in the etiology of Behçet's Disease (BD). Heat-shock protein-65 (HSP-65) derived from Streptococcus sanguinis was proposed as a triggering factor based on its homology with human HSP-60. However, none of the autoantigens identified so far in sera from BD share common epitopes with bacterial HSP-65 or has a high...
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