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An Epstein Barr virus-related cross reactive autoimmune response in multiple sclerosis in Norway

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Abstract

In studies of patients in Norway with multiple sclerosis (MS), we have found cross reactive autoantibodies related to the Epstein Ban-virus nuclear antigen-1 (EBNA-1). The MS patients had elevated IgG antibody to EBNA-1, as measured by reactivity with a synthetic glycine/alanine peptide, P62, which represents the glycine/alanine repeat in EBNA-1. The mean titer of anti-P62 in patients with acute relapse at the time of assay was significantly higher than in the remaining patients. Patients with remitting/relapsing MS also had elevated autoantibody to a lymphocyte protein, p542, cross reactive with EBNA-1 through a glycine/serine epitope. High titered anti-EBNA-1 antibodies from some MS, as well as from some SLE sera, were shown to cross react with 80–82 kDa and 60 kDa proteins in neuroglial cells.

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