Molecular characterization of recombinant T1, a non-allergenic periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) protein, with sequence similarity to the Bet v 1 plant allergen family

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 373, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 261-269

  Laffer, Sylvia ^a   Hamdi, Said ^b   Lupinek, Christian ^a   Sperr, Wolfgang R ^a   Valent, Peter ^a   Verdino, Petra ^c   Keller, Walter ^c   Grote, Monika ^d   Hoffmann Sommergruber, Karin ^a   Scheiner, Otto ^a   Kraft, Dietrich ^a   Rideau, Marc ^e   Valenta, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Allergy; Cross reactivity; Pathogenesis related proteins; Recombinant periwinkle protein

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SKIN;

ALLERGIC PATIENTS;

PROTEINS;

ALLERGEN; HISTAMINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RECOMBINAT PROTEIN T1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLERGENICITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASOPHIL; BIOENGINEERING; CATHARANTHUS; CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HEAT TREATMENT; HISTAMINE RELEASE; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BETULA; CATHARANTHUS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN FOLDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SKIN TESTS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

BETULA; BETULA PENDULA; CATHARANTHUS; CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0038343131     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20030331     Document Type: Article

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