Identification by immunoblot of venom glycoproteins displaying immunoglobulin E-binding N-glycans as cross-reactive allergens in honeybee and yellow jacket venom

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 460-469

  Hemmer, W ^a   Focke, M ^a   Kolarich, D ^b   Dalik, I ^b   Gotz M ^a   Jarisch, R ^a  

^a FAZ Floridsdorf Allergy Centre   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

1 3 fucose; Carbohydrate epitopes; CCDS; Cross reactive carbohydrate determinants; Honeybee venom allergy; Hymenoptera allergy; N linked glycans; Oilseed rape; Venom double positivity; Yellow jacket venom allergy

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; ANTISERUM; BEE VENOM; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; BROMELAIN; CARBOHYDRATE; EPITOPE; GLYCAN DERIVATIVE; GLYCOPROTEIN; HYALURONIDASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; N GLYCAN; PHOSPHOLIPASE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLOSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME BINDING; FEMALE; FUCOSYLATION; HONEYBEE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INSECT ALLERGY; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; RABBIT; RAPESEED; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIZATION; SERUM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLERGENS; BEE VENOMS; CHILD; CROSS REACTIONS; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIODIC ACID; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; WASP VENOMS;

EID: 1642391757     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2004.01897.x     Document Type: Article

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