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The potential use of antibacterial peptide antibody indices in the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis.

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BACKGROUND Both rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are potentially disabling arthritic disorders for which as yet no highly sensitive and reliable diagnostic laboratory markers are available. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the levels of antibodies

Cross-reactive epitope with Klebsiella pneumoniae nitrogenase in articular tissue of HLA-B27+ patients with ankylosing spondylitis.

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Synovial tissues from patients with ankylosing spondylitis or reactive arthritis were examined by an immunoperoxidase technique, using antisera to synthetic peptides representing antigens shared between HLA-B27.1 and Klebsiella pneumoniae nitrogenase. With either antiserum, all HLA-B27+ patients

Autoantibodies to the HLA-B27 sequence cross-react with the hypothetical peptide from the arthritis-associated Shigella plasmid.

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We previously reported elevated serum antibody levels to a peptide representing the HLA-B27 polymorphic region (B27 peptide) in HLA-B27(+) ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients. A plasmid (pHS-2) isolated from arthritogenic Shigella flexneri strains had been shown to encode an amino acid sequence

Molecular mimickry between HLA B27 and Yersinia, Salmonella, Shigella and Klebsiella within the same region of HLA alpha 1-helix.

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Two new examples of amino acid homology between HLA B27 and microbes triggering HLA B27-associated diseases are described. An outer membrane protein YadA (Yersinia adhesin, previously called Yop1) of Yersinia enterocolitica and Y. pseudotuberculosis shares a linear tetrapeptide with HLA B27. A

Molecular mimicry in the pathogenesis of spondyloarthropathies. A critical appraisal of cross-reactivity between microbial antigens and HLA-B27.

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We describe an amino acid homology between a virulence plasmid encoded outer membrane protein of Yersinia, YadA (previously called Yop1) and HLA-B27. This tetrapeptide is also included in the hexapeptide, earlier found to be identical between Klebsiella nitrogenase and HLA-B27. The synthetic peptide

Molecular mimicry: any role in the pathogenesis of spondyloarthropathies?

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Ankylosing spondylitis and reactive arthritis are seronegative spondyloarthropathies, which are strongly associated with HLA-B27. Despite intensive investigation, the basis for this association is not clear. However, in recent years one favored hypothesis to explain this linkage has been that of

Molecular mimicry: the geographical distribution of immune responses to Klebsiella in ankylosing spondylitis and its relevance to therapy.

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The discovery that HLA-B27 is linked to ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and HLA-DR1/DR4 to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has provided new approaches to the study of the possible causation of these diseases. Several theories have been proposed to explain these associations but only one, namely "molecular

HLA molecules in autoimmune diseases.

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The association of certain autoimmune diseases with HLA molecules is being refined through the use of sequence-specific oligonucleotide probes and amino acid sequencing, together with continuing elucidation of the functional features of HLA molecules derived from the milestone description by

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