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Local Immunodeficiency: Minimal Networks and Stability.
Mathematical Biosciences 2019 Februrary 15
Some basic aspects of the recently discovered phenomenon of local immunodeficiency [1] generated by antigenic cooperation in cross-immunoreactivity (CR) networks are investigated. We prove that local immunodeficiency (LI) that's stable under perturbations already occurs in very small networks and under general conditions on their parameters. Therefore our results are applicable not only to Hepatitis C where CR networks are known to be large [1], but also to other diseases with CR. A major necessary feature of such networks is the non-homogeneity of their topology. It is also shown that one can construct larger CR networks with stable LI by using small networks with stable LI as their building blocks. Our results imply that stable LI occurs in networks with quite general topology. In particular, the scale-free property of a CR network, assumed in [1], is not required.
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