The major Platanus acerifolia pollen allergen Pla a 1 has sequence homology to invertase inhibitors

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 978-985

  Asturias, Juan A ^a,b   Ibarrola, I ^a   Eraso, E ^a   Arilla, M C ^a   Martinez A ^a  

^a R and D Department   (Spain)

^b Bial Aristegui   (Spain)

Author keywords

All alpha proteins; Invertase inhibitor; London plane tree; Platanus acerifolia; Recombinant protein; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; POLLEN ANTIGEN; PROTEIN PLA A 1; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACTION; GEL FILTRATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLATINUS ACERIFOLIA; POLLEN ALLERGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TREE;

ACERACEAE; ALLERGENS; BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; PLANT EXTRACTS; POLLEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TREES;

EID: 0037824385     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2222.2003.01707.x     Document Type: Article

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