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Diseases & Epitopes



There are hundreds of autoimmune and allergic diseases. They have a tremendous effect on people’s lives, and exact a heavy financial and emotional cost. In our project, we chose to focus on five specific diseases. We chose these diseases because they are familiar and very different in their pathophysiology, thus demonstrating both the pertinence, and modularity, of our proposed treatment.

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bee peanut MS Celiac type1



Epitopes

An Epitope is the part of an antigen that is recognized by the immune system, specifically by antibodies, B cells, or T cells.
Below are the epitopes we used to prevent the diseases we focused on.


Allergies /
autoimmune diseases 		Epitopes Amino acids sequences
Multiple sclerosis Domain 1 in the MOG - myelin oligodendrocyte protein GQFRVIGPGHPIRALVGDEAE [9]
Domain 2 in the MOG - myelin oligodendrocyte protein MEVGMYRSPFSRVVHLYRNGK [9]
Domain 3 in the MOG - myelin oligodendrocyte protein SYQEEAAVELKVED [9]
Diabetes type 1 Proinsulin MALWMRLLPL LALLALWGPD PAAAFVNQHLCGSHLVEALY LVCGERGFFYTPKTRREAED LQVGQVELGG GPGAGSLQPL ALEGSLQKRG IVEQCCTSIC SLYQLENYCN [10]
Celiac Domain 1 in the 33 mer peptide PFPQPQLPY [11] [12]
Domain 2 in the 33 mer peptide PQPQLPYPQ [11] [12]
Domain 3 in the 33 mer peptide PYPQPQLPY [11] [12]
Peanut allergy Overlapping domain 1 between Ara-h2 and Ara-h6 proteins KRELRN [13] [14]
Overlapping domain 2 between Ara-h2 and Ara-h6 proteins LQGRQQ [13] [14]
Overlapping domain 3 between Ara-h2 and Ara-h6 proteins DPYSPS [13] [14]
Bee venom allergy Domain 1 in the phospholipase A2 (PLA) protein CLHYTVDKSKPK [15]
Domain 2 in the phospholipase A2 (PLA) protein YFVGKMYFNLID [15]
Domain 3 in the phospholipase A2 (PLA) protein ESKHGLTNTASHTRLSCD [15]



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  2. Müller, U., et al. "Increased specificity of diagnostic tests with recombinant major bee venom allergen phospholipase A2." Clinical & Experimental Allergy 27.8 (1997): 915-920.‏
  3. Al-Muhsen, Saleh, Ann E. Clarke, and Rhoda S. Kagan. "Peanut allergy: an overview." Canadian Medical Association Journal 168.10 (2003): 1279-1285.
  4. Mueller, Geoffrey A., Soheila J. Maleki, and Lars C. Pedersen. "The molecular basis of peanut allergy." Current allergy and asthma reports 14.5 (2014): 1-9.‏‏
  5. Dilokthornsakul, Piyameth, et al. "Multiple sclerosis prevalence in the United States commercially insured population." Neurology 86.11 (2016): 1014-1021.‏
  6. Fletcher, J. M., et al. "T cells in multiple sclerosis and experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis." Clinical & Experimental Immunology 162.1 (2010): 1-11.‏‏
  7. Gujral, Naiyana, Hugh J. Freeman, and Alan BR Thomson. "Celiac disease: prevalence, diagnosis, pathogenesis and treatment."7 World journal of gastroenterology: WJG 18.42 (2012): 6036.‏
  8. Reuters, Thomson. “Diabetes cases soar to record 382 million worldwide.” CBCnews, CBC/Radio Canada, 14 Nov. 2013, www.cbc.ca/news/health/diabetes-cases-hit-record-382-million-worldwide-1.2426381.‏
  9. Mendel, Itzhack, Nicole Kerlero de Rosbo, and Avraham Ben‐Nun. "A myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein peptide induces typical chronic experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in H-2b mice: Fine specificity and T cell receptor Vβ expression of encephalitogenic T cells." European journal of immunology 25.7 (1995): 1951-1959.‏
  10. Narendran, Parth, Stuart I. Mannering, and Leonard C. Harrison. "Proinsulin—a pathogenic autoantigen in type 1 diabetes." Autoimmunity reviews 2.4 (2003): 204-210
  11. Ozuna, Carmen V., et al. "Diversification of the celiac disease α‐gliadin complex in wheat: a 33‐mer peptide with six overlapping epitopes, evolved following polyploidization." The Plant Journal 82.5 (2015): 794-805
  12. Schalk, Kathrin, et al. "Quantitation of the immunodominant 33-mer peptide from α-gliadin in wheat flours by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry." Scientific Reports 7 (2017): 45092.
  13. Mishra, Ankita, Anuja Jain, and Naveen Arora. "Mapping B‐cell epitopes of major and minor peanut allergens and identifying residues contributing to IgE binding." Journal of the science of food and agriculture 96.2 (2016): 539-547.
  14. Otsu, K., R. Guo, and S. C. Dreskin. "Epitope analysis of Ara h 2 and Ara h 6: characteristic patterns of IgE‐binding fingerprints among individuals with similar clinical histories." Clinical & Experimental Allergy 45.2 (2015): 471-484.
  15. Carballido, J. M., et al. "T cell epitope specificity in human allergic andnonallergic subjects to bee venom phospholipase A2." The Journal of Immunology 150.8 (1993): 3582-3591
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