Purification and characterization of the major oak pollen allergen Que a 1 for component-resolved diagnostics using ImmunoCAP®

International Archives of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 203-211

  Movérare, Robert ^a,b   Everberg, Henrik ^a   Carlsson, Raimo ^a   Holtz, Anette ^a   Thunberg, Roland ^a   Olsson, Peter ^a   Brostedt, Peter ^a   Högbom, Erik ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid sequence; Component resolved diagnostics; Immunoblotting; ImmunoCAP ; Mass spectrometry; Oak pollen; Que a 1; Two dimensional gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; POLLEN ALLERGEN QUE A 1; POLLEN ANTIGEN; PROFILIN;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OAK; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PILOT PROJECTS; PLANT PROTEINS; POLLEN; QUERCUS; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, SEASONAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 45149122507     PISSN: 10182438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000115888     Document Type: Article

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