... diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis are conventionally thought of as ‘autoimmune'. No convincing candidate autoantigen has yet been identified in rheumatoid arthritis, and recent experiments in transgenic mice indicate that arthritis can be induced by an autoimmune T-cell response which does not target...

... of other autoantigens. 4. T-cell epitopes appear to be widely distributed throughout PDC-E2. This is in contrast to the B-cell epitopes which are highly restricted to the inner lipoyl binding domain of the protein. © 1996 The Biochemical Society and the Medical Research Society 1996 autoantigen...

...Jeremy M. Palmer; Margaret F. Bassendine; Oliver F. W. James; Stephen J. Yeaman 1. The sera of more than 90% of patients with primary biliary cirrhosis contain antimitochondrial antibodies which react with the E2 component of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, identified as the major autoantigen...