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The 65-kDa heat-shock protein in the pathogenesis, prevention and therapy of autoimmune arthritis and diabetes mellitus in rats and mice

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hsp are molecules which are highly conserved from procaryotes to eukaryotes. At a first glance the immune system should treat these molecules as self. However, strong immune reactions to bacterial hsp are observed during infection in mammals.

hsp65 plays a role in several autoimmune diseases in animal models. In AA in Lewis rats the involvement of hsp65 has been revealed by T cell clones which induce disease in naive recipients, or by T cell vaccination experiments. T cell clones which show in vivo activity have been used as tools in vitro to define epitopes involved in the disease process. In this manner mycobacterial hsp65 and its epitope peptide 180–188 were deduced for AA in Lewis rats. Similarily the epitope p277 was defined for diabetes in NOD mice.

The role of hsp65 in several other autoimmune diseases was seen when animals were pretreated with hsp65 and found to be protected from subsequent induction of autoimmune disease. From the involvement of hsp65 in several different autoimmune diseases, it would appear that hsp65 is somehow a key factor in natural autoimmunity. At a fist glance this is surprising since mycobacterial hsp65 shows 50% amino acid homology with human hsp65, in other words it is ‘half-self’.

Peptide epitopes, peptide 180–188 in AA in Lewis rats and p277 in IDDM in NOD mice, have been used for peptide vaccination, which represents another possibility for prevention of autoimmune disease. The immunological mechanism which leads to resistance from autoimmune disease involves hsp65 immunity and appears not to be associated with tolerance or non-responsiveness to hsp65, but seems to be due rather to modulation of naturally existing networks of idiotype-anti-idiotype T cells organized around hsp65 as the target antigen.

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Feige, U., Cohen, I.R. The 65-kDa heat-shock protein in the pathogenesis, prevention and therapy of autoimmune arthritis and diabetes mellitus in rats and mice. Springer Semin Immunopathol 13, 99–113 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01225281

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