Complementary peptide epitopes and anti-idiotypic antibodies in autoimmunity.
Application of complementary B and T cell epitopes in inducing anti-idiotypic and anti-clonotypic antibodies capable of regulating or suppressing the autoimmune responses in experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis (EAMG), allergic neuritis (EAN) and allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) has been the stimulus of many research efforts. Studies on the idiotypic/anti-idiotypic network of anti-La/SSB positive sera from patients with Sjogren's Syndrome (SS) and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and on animals immunized with the complementary epitopes are presented.
Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece.
Maria
M
Sakarellos-Daitsiotis
Manh-Thong
MT
Cung
Constantinos
C
Sakarellos
Zouhair
Z
El Hilali
Aggeliki
A
Kosmopoulou
Chryssa
C
Voitharou
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000888:Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic / Q000276:immunology*; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000276:immunology*; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D004681:Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental / Q000276:immunology; D000939:Epitopes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000276:immunology*; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000276:immunology; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000276:immunology; D009444:Neuritis, Autoimmune, Experimental / Q000276:immunology; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000276:immunology*; D012859:Sjogren's Syndrome / Q000276:immunology; D021241:Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology
D000888:Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic; D000939:Epitopes; D010455:Peptides