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The development of autoimmune diseases is characterized by the breakdown of mechanism(s) that are responsible for maintaining immunological tolerance against self-structures in the periphery. Several aberrations of immune cells have been described so far. Most recently quantitative and/or qualitative defects of T cells with the capacity to suppress or regulate the proliferation of effector T cells...
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a prototypic autoimmune disease characterized by antibodies to DNA (anti-DNA). Although these antibodies have features of antigen drive, the source of this DNA is not defined. To assess the potential role of foreign and self-DNA as driving antigens, the specificity of SLE sera for bacterial and mammalian DNA was evaluated. Micrococcus lysodeikticus (MC) and calf...
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