Dissection of immunoglobulin E and T lymphocyte reactivity of isoforms of the major birch pollen allergen Bet v 1: Potential use of hypoallergenic isoforms for immunotherapy

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 599-609

  Ferreira, Fátima ^a   Hirtenlehner, Kora ^b   Jilek, Alexander ^a   Godnik Cvar, Jasminka ^c   Breiteneder, Heimo ^b   Grimm, Rudolf ^d   Hoffmann Sommergruber, Karin ^b   Scheiner, Otto ^b   Kraft, Dietrich ^b   Breitenbach, Michael ^a   Rheinberger, Hans Jörg ^a   Ebner, Christof ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Klinische Abteilung für Arbeitsmedizin   (Austria)

^d Hewlett Packard Analytical Group   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; POLLEN ANTIGEN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ALLERGENICITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TEST; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; URTICARIA;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONE CELLS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EPITOPES; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; POLLEN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 13344287034     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.183.2.599     Document Type: Article

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