Yellow jacket venom allergens, hyaluronidase and phospholipase: Sequence similarity and antigenic cross-reactivity with their hornet and wasp homologs and possible implications for clinical allergy

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 588-600

  King, Te Piao ^a   Lu, Gang ^a   Gonzalez, Manuel ^a   Qian, Naifeng ^a   Soldatova, Lyudmila ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allergens; antigen 5; hornet; hyaluronidase; phospholipase; wasp; yellow jacket

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; ALLPYRAL; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EPITOPE; HYALURONIDASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ALLERGY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CROSS REACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WASP;

EID: 0029911048     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-6749(96)70093-3     Document Type: Article

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