Molecular mimicry between an immunodominant amino acid motif on the 47-kDa lipoprotein of Treponema pallidum (Tpp47) and multiple repeats of analogous sequences in fibronectin

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Molecular mimicry, resulting from structural similarities between self-determinants on host Ags and an organism's antigenic determinants (epitopes), can incite autoimmune events in certain bacterial and viral diseases. In the course of comprehensively mapping the 47-kDa lipoprotein (Tpp47) of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum using an overlapping synthetic peptide strategy, we identified a major immunoreactive...

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