Anti-mitochondrial flavoprotein autoantibodies of patients with myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy (anti-M7): Interaction with flavin- carrying proteins, effect of vitamin B2 and epitope mapping

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 404-408

  Stahle I ^c   Brizzio, C ^a   Barile, M ^a   Brandsch, Roderich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Anti flavoprotein autoantibodies; Dilated cardiomyopathy; Myocarditis; Vitamin B2

Indexed keywords

CHYMOTRYPSIN; EGG WHITE; EPITOPE; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; MITOCHONDRION ANTIBODY; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; PROTEINASE; RIBOFLAVIN; RIBOFLAVIN BINDING PROTEIN; TRYPSIN;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITOPE MAPPING; HEART DILATATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MYOCARDITIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASMA PROTEIN BINDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTIONS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EPITOPE MAPPING; FLAVOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOCARDITIS; MYOCARDIUM; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; RABBITS; RATS; RIBOFLAVIN;

EID: 0032997228     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1999.00832.x     Document Type: Article

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