Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Michael B.A. Oldstone
  • An Overview: Molecular Mimicry and Disease / Kumar Visvanathan, John B. Zabriskie
  • Principles of Molecular Mimicry and Autoimmune Disease / Irun R. Cohen
  • Molecular Mimicry and Central Nervous System Autoimmune Disease / Robert S. Fujinami
  • Molecular Mimicry between Streptococcal M Protein and Cardiac Myosin and the Immunopathogenesis of Rheumatic Fever / Madeleine W. Cunningham
  • Antigenic Mimicry between Self and Coxsackievirus Proteins Leads to Both Humoral and Cellular Autoimmunity to Heart Proteins / Sally A. Huber, Charles J. Gauntt
  • Molecular Mimicry and Heart Disease / Josef M. Penninger, Kurt Bachmaier
  • Peptide Mimicry of Streptococcal Group A Carbohydrate / Neil S. Greenspan, Clemencia Pinilla, Alexander R. Shikhman
  • Role of Superantigens in Molecular Mimicry and Autoimmunity / Malak Kotb
  • Peptide Induction of Systemic Lupus Autoimmunity / John B. Harley, R. Hal Scofield, Judith A. James
  • Mimicry between DNA, Carbohydrates, and Peptides: Implications in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus / Czeslawa Kowal, Betty Diamond
  • Peptide Mimicry of the Polysaccharide Capsule of Cryptococcus neoformans / David O. Beenhouwer, Philippe Valadon, Rena May, Matthew D. Scharff
  • Autoimmunity in Lyme Arthritis: Molecular Mimicry between OspA and LFA-1 / Dawn M. Gross, Brigitte T. Huber
  • Exploiting Molecular Mimicry in Targeting Carbohydrate Antigens / Gina Cunto-Amesty, Thomas Kieber-Emmons.