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nbme13/Block 2/Question#20 (reveal difficulty score)
an investigator is studying the human immune ...
cancer type cervical cancer human papilloma virus type 16 E6 ๐Ÿ” / ๐Ÿ“บ / ๐ŸŒณ / ๐Ÿ“–
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i was so confused by this question. is this because the rest are human antigens, so why would we have antibodies against them? but HPV is antibody toward E6 is foreign...?

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topgunber  im going with this explanation. the rest : cd19, her2, Prostate acid phosph, tyrosinase are all endogenous molecules. makes sense that viral protein e6 has the highest immunogenicity. +9



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