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Molecular mimicry and myasthenia-gravis - an autoantigenic site of the acetylcholine-receptor alpha-subunit that has biologic activity and reacts immunochemically with herpes-simplex virus

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authors

  • Schwimmbeck, P. L.
  • Dyrberg, T.
  • Drachman, D. B.
  • Oldstone, Michael

publication date

  • October 1989

journal

  • Journal of Clinical Investigation  Journal

abstract

  • The large majority of patients with the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis characteristically have detectable antibodies against the acetylcholine receptor (AChR). We used synthetic peptides to identify antibodies in sera of myasthenia gravis patients reactive with the human acetylcholine receptor (HuAChR) alpha-subunit, residues 160-167. Affinity purification of these antibodies, using the HuAChR alpha-subunit 157-170 peptide immobilized on thiopropyl-Sepharose, yielded IgG antibodies that bound to the native AChR and inhibited the binding of alpha-bungarotoxin to the receptor. The HuAChR alpha-subunit 160-167 peptide demonstrated specific immunological cross-reactivity with a shared homologous domain on herpes simplex virus glycoprotein D, residues 286-293, by both binding and inhibition studies. Thus, HuAChR alpha-subunit, residues 160-167, elicits antibodies in myasthenic patients that binds to the native AChR protein and is capable of eliciting a biologic effect. Immunologic cross-reactivity of this "self" epitope with herpes simplex virus suggest that this virus may be associated with the initiation of some cases of myasthenia.

subject areas

  • Amino Acids
  • Autoantibodies
  • Bungarotoxins
  • Chromatography, Affinity
  • Cross Reactions
  • Fluorescent Antibody Technique
  • Humans
  • Immunoglobulins
  • Myasthenia Gravis
  • Radioimmunoassay
  • Receptors, Cholinergic
  • Simplexvirus
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Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0021-9738

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1172/jci114282

PubMed ID

  • 2551924
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 1174

end page

  • 1180

volume

  • 84

issue

  • 4

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