The human Ku autoantigen shares amino acid sequence homology with fungal, but not bacterial and viral, proteins

Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 329-333

  Guarneri, Fabrizio ^a   Guarneri, Biagio ^a   Vaccaro, Mario ^a   Guarneri, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

autoimmunity; fungi; Ku autoantigen; molecular mimicry; systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EPITOPE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; KU ANTIGEN; PROTEIN P70; PROTEIN P80; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS CLAVATUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ASPERGILLUS TERREUS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHAETOMIUM; CHAETOMIUM GLOBOSUM; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; HUMAN; MALASSEZIA GLOBOSA; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NEOSARTORYA; NEOSARTORYA FISCHERI; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; AUTOANTIGENS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ASPERGILLUS CLAVATUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ASPERGILLUS TERREUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHAETOMIUM GLOBOSUM; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; MALASSEZIA GLOBOSA; NEOSARTORYA FISCHERI; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA;

EID: 79955831928     PISSN: 08923973     EISSN: 15322513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08923973.2010.510526     Document Type: Article

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