title: Epitope mapping of human thyroglobulin reveals a central immunodominant region.
abstract: Thyroglobulin is the thyroid hormone precursor and the major antigen frequently involved in autoimmune diseases. The primary structure of human thyroglobulin is known but the spatial structure remains largely undetermined. By using fusion protein produced in prokaryotic system we have characterized seven short immunoreactive peptides carrying at least one epitope. None of them includes hormonogenic sites, but five are concentrated in the central part of the monomeric molecule, which thus emerges as the major immunogenic region of this protein.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorie de Biochimie Médicale, INSERM U38, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Malthièry
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Henry
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Zanelli
mesh_terms: D000939:Epitopes; D006801:Humans; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000276:immunology; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000276:immunology; D013954:Thyroglobulin / Q000737:chemistry / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D000939:Epitopes; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D013954:Thyroglobulin