Protein digestibility and relevance to allergenicity

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1122-1124

  Bannon, Gary ^a   Fu, Tong Jen ^b   Kimber, Ian ^c   Hinton, Dennis M ^b  

^a Product Safety Center   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^c JEALOTT S HILL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allergenicity; Protein stability; Protein structure; Proteolytic digestion; Safety assessment; Sequence homology; Simulated gastric fluid

Indexed keywords

FOOD ALLERGEN; PROTEIN;

ALLERGENICITY; FOOD ALLERGY; IN VITRO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; UNITED NATIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0038353485     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.5812     Document Type: Review

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