A monoclonal antibody with broad specificity for the ligands of insulin B:9-23 reactive T cells prevents spontaneous type 1 diabetes in mice

• Main Authors: Joseph Ray Cepeda (Author), Nitin S Sekhar (Author), Junying Han (Author), Wei Xiong (Author), Ningyan Zhang (Author), Liping Yu (Author), Shaodong Dai (Author), Howard W. Davidson (Author), John W. Kappler (Author), Zhiqiang An (Author), Li Zhang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Activation of T cells specific for insulin B chain amino acids 9 to 23 (B:9-23) is essential for the initiation of type 1 diabetes (T1D) in non-obese diabetic mice. We previously reported that peptide/MHC complexes containing optimized B:9-23 mimotopes can activate most insulin-reactive pathogenic T...