Recombinant DNA technology in Allergology: Cloning and expression of plant profilins

Allergologia et Immunopathologia

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 127-134

  Asturias, J A ^a   Arilla, M C ^a   Gomez Bayon N ^a   Martinez A ^a   Martinez J ^a   Palacios, R ^a  

^a IFIDESA ARISTEGUI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Affinity chromatography; Bacterial expression; Cloning; IgE binding; Pan allergen; Profilin; Recombinant allergen; Three dimensional structure

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; ALLERGEN; CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; PROFILIN; RECOMBINANT DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD ALLERGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT; POLLEN; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RABBIT; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTIONS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; CROSS REACTIONS; DNA, RECOMBINANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; POLLEN; PROFILINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031133716     PISSN: 03010546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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