Garcia De Vinuesa, Maria CarolaGoodnow, Christopher2015-12-130028-0836http://hdl.handle.net/1885/94555In autoimmune diseases, a person's tissues are destroyed by their own immune system. IgG, a normal component of blood, provokes autoimmune responses when immune cells recognize it as a complex with DNA.Keywords: Blood; Cells; Immunology; Tissue; Immune cells; DNA; autoantibody; DNA; immunoglobulin G; lymphocyte antigen receptor; cell surface receptor; DNA binding protein; Drosophila protein; membrane protein; rheumatoid factor; TLR9 protein, human; Tlr9 protein,200210.1038/416595a2015-12-12