Jonathan Edwards
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So I wondered whether protein cleavage, which is a form of post-translational modification, could lead to an autoimmune response. Or is cleavage too large a modification, which too radically alters the protein? Perhaps you were thinking of more subtle forms of post-translational modification?
It just not seem to add up to me since the response would only be to the cleaved protein and that is not what is being measured. You would also need some form of T cell help to get the story off the ground. It all seems too speculative to be worth much brain power. Anything is possible but I think one has to have at least some reasonable leads.