Characterization of the 33-kilodalton major allergen of Penicillium citrinum by using MoAbs and N-terminal amino acid sequencing

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 79-86

  Shen, H D ^a   Lin, W L ^a   Liaw, S F ^a   Tam, M F ^a   Han, S H ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

33 kD allergen; MoAbs; N terminal amino acid sequence; P. citrinum

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; PENICILLIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIWAN;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; CROSS REACTIONS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; EPITOPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; ISOELECTRIC POINT; ISOENZYMES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PENICILLIUM; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 0031034645     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.1997.tb00676.x     Document Type: Article

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