Figure 4. Potential mechanism for development of autoantibodies through a common environmental etiology.
While potential structural mimics are known with EBNA-1 for Ro, Sm B, Sm D, nRNP A, nRNP C and nRNP 70 K, no such structural relationship is known for a heteroimmune response operating to generate anti-dsDNA, anti-chromatin or anti-ribosomal P.
