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. 2010 Mar 10;5(3):e9599. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009599

Figure 4. Potential mechanism for development of autoantibodies through a common environmental etiology.

Figure 4

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.