Pollen-related food allergy: Cloning and immunological analysis of isoforms and mutants of Mal d 1, the major apple allergen, and Bet v 1, the major birch pollen allergen

European Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 201-215

  Son, D Y ^a   Scheurer, S ^a   Hoffmann, A ^a   Haustein, D ^a   Vieths, S ^a  

^a PAUL EHRLICH INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apple allergen; Epitopes; IgE; Isoforms; Mutants; Strains

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FOOD ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MUTANT PROTEIN; POLLEN ANTIGEN;

ALLERGENICITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APPLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSS REACTION; FOOD ALLERGY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLLEN ALLERGY; RAT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; EPITOPES; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; FRUIT; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; POLLEN; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TREES;

ANIMALIA; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 0032871701     PISSN: 14366207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003940050063     Document Type: Article

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