Bet v 1 proteins, the major birch pollen allergens and members of a family of conserved pathogenesis-related proteins, show ribonuclease activity in vitro

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 433-438

  Swoboda, Ines ^a   Hoffmann Sommergruber, Karin ^b   O'Ríordáin, Gabriel ^b   Scheiner, Otto ^b   Heberle Bors, Erwin ^a   Vicente, Oscar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Allergy; Betula verrucosa; Birch, pathogenesis related proteins; Pollen allergens; Ribonuclease; Self incompatibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000303053     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.1996.tb00455.x     Document Type: Article

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