Microbiota epitope similarity either dampens or enhances the immunogenicity of disease-associated antigenic epitopes

• Sebastian Carrasco Pro,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  Affiliation La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, Department of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Cecilia S. Lindestam Arlehamn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, Department of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7302-8002

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• Sandeep K. Dhanda,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, Department of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Chelsea Carpenter,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, Department of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Mikaela Lindvall,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, Department of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Ali A. Faruqi,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of California San Francisco, Department of Medicine, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Clark A. Santee,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of California San Francisco, Department of Medicine, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Harald Renz,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Philipps Universitaet Marburg, Marburg, Germany

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• John Sidney,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, Department of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Bjoern Peters,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, Department of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla, California, United States of America, University of California San Diego, Department of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Alessandro Sette

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alex@lji.org

  Affiliations La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, Department of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla, California, United States of America, University of California San Diego, Department of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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