Molecular and immunological characterization of profilin from mugwort pollen

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 383, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1779-1789

  Wopfner, Nicole ^a   Willeroider, Marika ^a   Hebenstreit, Daniel ^a   van Ree, Ronald ^b   Aalbers, Marja ^b   Briza, Peter ^a   Thalhamer, Josef ^a   Ebner, Christof ^c   Richter, Klaus ^a   Ferreira, Fátima ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b SANQUIN RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Allergen; cDNA cloning; IgE binding; Isoallergen; Isoform; Mugwort pollen; Oligomerization; Profilin

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; DIMER; EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; ION; ISOPROTEIN; MONOMER; PROFILIN; TETRAMER; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ALLERGENICITY; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTEMISIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; FOOD; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; HISTAMINE RELEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLEN ALLERGY; POLLEN ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARTEMISIA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; ISOMERISM; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLLEN; PROFILINS; RABBITS; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TEMPERATURE;

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA VULGARIS; BRYOPHYTES; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 12244250129     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2002.199     Document Type: Review

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