Table 1.

Mimotopes of retinal autoantigen in uveitis.

Source	Amino acid sequence of peptide/epitope															Protein
Rotavirus				W	T	E	V	S	E	V	A	T	E	V		Outer capsid protein aa 591-601 (peptide Rota)
Bovine milk				S	E	E	S	A	E	V	A	T	E	E	V	Bovine αs2-casein aa 73-84 (peptide Cas)
Retinal autoantigen	F	L	G	E	L	T	S	S	E	V	A	T	E	V		Human retinal S-Ag, peptide PDSAg aa 341-354
HLA-B	A	L	N	E	D	L	S	S	W	T	A	A	D	T		HLA-B, α1 domain aa 125-138 (peptide B27PD)
Retinal autoantigen	V	T	I	Y	L	G	N									Human retinal S-Ag aa 26-32
M. bovis (BCG)	V	T	I	Y	L	G	N									Invasion protein aa 433-439
Retinal autoantigen	V	G	T	P	A	E	Q	A								Human IRBP aa 304-311
M. bovis (BCG)	V	G	T	P	A	E	V	A								MabA protein aa 231-238
Retinal autoantigen	D	G	S	S	W	E	G									Human IRBP, peptide R14 aa 1200-1206
M. bovis (BCG)	D	G	S	S	W	D	G									Membrane acyltransferase aa 173-179
Retinal autoantigen	D	S	L	S	P	E	A									Human CRALBP aa 129-135
M. bovis (BCG)	D	S	L	S	P	E	A									Polyketide synthase aa 997-1003

S-Ag, retinal soluble antigen; IRBP, interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein; CRALBP, cellular retinaldehyde-binding protein, M. bovis, Mycobacterium bovis. Amino acids identical with the sequence of the retinal autoantigen are marked by grey fields.