A mimotope defined by phage display inhibits IgE binding to the plant panallergen profilin

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2921-2927

  Leitner, Agnes ^a   Vogel, Monique ^b   Radauer, Christian ^a   Breiteneder, Heimo ^a   Stadler, Beda M ^b   Scheiner, Otto ^a   Kraft, Dietrich ^a   Jensen Jarolim, Erika ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

IgE cross reactivity; Phage display; Profilin mimotope

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; PROFILIN;

ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CROSS REACTION; FOOD ALLERGY; FRUIT; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PHAGE DISPLAY; PLANT; POLLEN; POLLEN ALLERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREE; VEGETABLE;

ALLERGENS; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; CROSS REACTIONS; EPITOPE MAPPING; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; PROFILINS;

EID: 0031712893     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4141(199809)28:09<2921::AID-IMMU2921>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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