Molecular mimicry reflected through database screening: serendipity or survival strategy?

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Abstract

Protein databases have been growing fast, and there has been considerable improvement in the computer software used to explore them. Subsequently, database screening commonly yields evidence of molecular mimicry between unrelated proteins. Here, Chantal Roudier and colleagues analyse the statistical significance of such sequence identities.

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This work was supported by grants from Association de Recherche sur la Polyarthrite, Société Française de Rhumatologie, PHRC1994 APM, DGRT and MRT.

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