A small case-control study found potential molecular evidence that links human papillomavirus (HPV) to thyroid eye disease (TED). A homology analysis of 11 patients with TED and 11 controls pinpointed ...

Reference: Maldonado-Catala P, Gouripeddi R, Schlesinger N, Facelli JC. Molecular mimicry impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: Sequence homology between SARS-CoV-2 and autoimmune diseases epitopes.

More information: Pablo Maldonado-Catala et al, Molecular mimicry impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: Sequence homology between SARS-CoV-2 and autoimmune diseases epitopes, ImmunoInformatics (2025).

Based on the molecular mimicry hypothesis, the team identified 17 microbialpeptides very similar to insulin B:9-23. Testing them in immune cells obtained from type 1 diabetes patients, they identified ...

According to Altindis, molecular mimicry is one autoimmune mechanism in which the immune system cannot distinguish between a foreign antigen that shares a structural similarity with a host protein and ...