Molecular and immunologic characterization of a highly cross-reactive two EF-hand calcium-binding alder pollen allergen, Aln g 4: Structural basis for calcium-modulated IgE recognition

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 7031-7039

  Hayek, Brigitte ^a   Vangelista, Luca ^b   Pastore, Annalisa ^c   Sperr, Wolfgang R ^d   Valent, Peter ^d   Vrtala, Susanne ^a   Niederberger, Verena ^a   Twardosz, Anna ^a   Kraft, Dietrich ^a   Valenta, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; POLLEN ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CROSS REACTION; DNA LIBRARY; HISTAMINE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLLEN ALLERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; THERMOSTABILITY;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTIONS; APOPROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CALCIUM; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CROSS REACTIONS; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; DESENSITIZATION, IMMUNOLOGIC; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HISTAMINE RELEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; POLLEN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, SEASONAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TREES;

EID: 0032534590     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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