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Molecular Mimicry and Uveitis.

Gerhild Wildner¹, Maria Diedrichs-Möhring¹

¹Section of Immunobiology, Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital, LMU Munich, München, Germany.

Frontiers in Immunology

|November 16, 2020

Summary

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Molecular mimicry explains how similar antigens can trigger autoimmune diseases. Environmental antigens can activate T cells, leading to cross-reactivity with eye autoantigens and causing uveitis.

Keywords:

HLA T cells autoimmune disease intraocular inflammation microbiome nutritional antigens pathogens tolerance

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Ophthalmology

Background:

Antigen recognition by T cell receptors is specific but can bind multiple antigens due to limited screening of peptide-MHC complexes.
The immune system is typically tolerant to self-antigens, especially in immune-privileged sites like the eye.
Autoimmune diseases in these sites were difficult to explain without external triggers.

Purpose of the Study:

To describe molecular mimicry between retinal autoantigens and non-ocular antigens.
To explain the induction of intraocular inflammation via this mechanism.

Main Methods:

The study focuses on the concept of molecular mimicry and T cell cross-reactivity.
It describes how T cells activated by external mimotopes can infiltrate ocular tissues.

Main Results:

Antigenic mimicry between retinal autoantigens and various non-ocular antigens can induce intraocular inflammation.
T cells activated by mimotopes outside the eye can cross-react with retinal autoantigens upon entering ocular tissues.
This cross-reactivity leads to uveitis by recruiting inflammatory cells.

Conclusions:

Molecular mimicry provides a mechanism for initiating autoimmune responses in immune-privileged sites like the eye.
Environmental antigens mimicking self-antigens can break immune tolerance and cause intraocular inflammation (uveitis).