Cloning of the minor allergen Api g 4 profilin from celery (Apium graveolens) and its cross-reactivity with birch pollen profilin Bet v 2

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 962-971

  Scheurer, S ^a   Wangorsch, A ^a   Haustein, D ^a   Vieths, S ^a  

^a PAUL EHRLICH INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Api g 4; Bet v 2; Birch pollen; Celery; Cross reactivity; Food allergy; IgE; Minor allergen; Profilin

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PROFILIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD ALLERGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; POLLEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APIACEAE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; CROSS REACTIONS; DNA PRIMERS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTAMINE RELEASE; HUMANS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; POLLEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROFILINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0033946512     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2222.2000.00821.x     Document Type: Article

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