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CMV, a herpes virus, causes chronic asymptomatic infections in immunocompetent individuals, termed latency [ 13 ] . However, in situations of immunocompromise, CMV is reactivated, which in many cases leads to organ failure and death [ 13 ] . Epidemiological reports indicate that chronic CMV infections in humans may play an important role in pathogenesis of vascular diseases such as atherosclerosis [ 14 ] and systemic sclerosis [ 11 12 ] . In addition, a recent report [ 15 ] revealed that SSc autoantibodies bind to CMV late protein UL94 and induce apoptosis in endothelial cells therefore implicating molecular mimicry as a potential mechanism accounting for the link between SSc and CMV.
The frightening conclusion, if mockery precedes mimicry, is that any minute now we'll all be working for Tina Brown.
To stimulate a complete autoimmune response, two signals (one antigen specific and one not antigen specific), are necessary [ 31 ] . The best described antigen-specific mechanism is molecular mimicry, whereby some component of the offending virus resembles the host structure on a molecular level, thus providing the template for antibody formation that may crossreact with self-antigen.
Since this gene product plays a significant role in vasculogenic mimicry [ 17 ] . Classifying the expression level is biologically crucial.