ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2018
Peptide Sharing Between Viruses and DLX Proteins: A Potential Cross-Reactivity Pathway to Neuropsychiatric Disorders.
Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Neural autoantibodies in psychiatric disorders are associated with antibodies against viral pathogens: a retrospective study of 619 patients.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2025Article
- Baseline Infection Burden and Cognitive Function in Elders with Essential Tremor.Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.) · 2021Article
- CSF Brain-Reactive Autoantibodies are Elevated in Patients with Viral Encephalitis.Neuroscience bulletin · 2020Article
- A Peptide Link Between Human Cytomegalovirus Infection, Neuronal Migration, and Psychosis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
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- Viruses and Autoimmunity: A Review on the Potential Interaction and Molecular Mechanisms.Viruses · 2019Review
- Cross-Reactivity as a Mechanism Linking Infections to Stroke.Frontiers in neurology · 2019Article
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Abstract
The present study seeks to determine potential associations between viral infections and neuropsychiatric diseases. To address this issue, we investigated the peptide commonalities between viruses that have been related to psychiatric and neurological disorders-such as rubella, human immunodeficiency virus, and herpesviruses-and human distal-less homeobox (DLX) proteins expressed in developing brain-namely, DLX1, DLX2, DLX5, and DLX6. Peptide matching analyses revealed a high degree of pentapeptide sharing. From an immunological perspective, this overlap is relevant because pentapeptides are endowed with immunogenicity and antigenicity-that is, they are immune determinants. Moreover, infection-induced immune cross-reactions might have functional, spatial, and temporal implications related to the functions and expression patterns of DLX1 and DLX5 in the fetal and adult human brain. In sum, our data support the hypothesis that viral infections may be linked to neuropsychiatric diseases through autoimmune cross-reactions caused by molecular mimicry between viral proteins and brain-specific DLX self-antigens.
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