Cross-reactive B-cell epitopes of microbial and human heat shock protein 60/65 in atherosclerosis

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1060-1065

  Perschinka, Hannes ^a,b   Mayr, Manuel ^a   Millonig, Gunda ^a   Mayerl, Christina ^b   Van Der Zee, Ruurd ^c   Morrison, Sandra G ^d   Morrison, Richard P ^d   Xu, Qingbo ^a   Wick, Georg ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Atherosclerosis; Autoimmunity; Epitopes; Heat shock protein 60

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EPITOPE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 60; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 65; PROTEIN ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AGING; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CAROTID ARTERY; CHLAMYDIA; CROSS REACTION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RABBIT; SCHOOL CHILD;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHAPERONIN 60; CHAPERONINS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CROSS REACTIONS; EPITOPES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROEL PROTEIN; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RABBITS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037783249     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.ATV.0000071701.62486.49     Document Type: Article

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