Enhanced influenza A H1N1 T cell epitope recognition and cross-reactivity to protein-O-mannosyltransferase 1 in Pandemrix-associated narcolepsy type 1

Narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) is a severe sleep disorder with strong association to the HLA type DQB1*0602 and increased incidence among children vaccinated with the Influenza A vaccine Pandemrix. Here the authors show that these children develop T and B cell autoimmunity against protein-O-mannosyltransfe...

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Main Authors: A. Vuorela, T. L. Freitag, K. Leskinen, H. Pessa, T. Härkönen, I. Stracenski, T. Kirjavainen, P. Olsen, O. Saarenpää-Heikkilä, J. Ilonen, M. Knip, A. Vaheri, M. Partinen, P. Saavalainen, S. Meri, O. Vaarala
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22637-8