cDNA cloning and molecular identification of the major oyster allergen from the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1287-1294

  Leung, P S C ^a   Chu, K H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

cDNA; Cra g 1.03; IgE; Oyster allergen; Tropomyosin

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PLASMID VECTOR; TROPOMYOSIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; CRASSOSTREA GIGAS; DNA LIBRARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OYSTER; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERUM; SHRIMP;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EPITOPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OSTREIDAE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TROPOMYOSIN;

EID: 0035725709     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2222.2001.01165.x     Document Type: Article

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