Plant non-specific lipid transfer proteins as food and pollen allergens

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1336-1341

  Salcedo, G ^a   Sanchez Monge, R ^a   Diaz Perales, A ^a   Garcia Casado, G ^a   Barber, D ^b  

^a Electrotechnical Section   (Spain)

^b ALK ABELLÓ   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EPITOPE; FOOD ALLERGEN; LIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN; POLLEN ANTIGEN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALLERGENICITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPITOPE MAPPING; EUROPE; FOOD ALLERGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEAT TOLERANCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN ALLERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMIC DISEASE;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, PLANT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; EPITOPES; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HEAT; HUMANS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; POLLEN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 4544383658     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2004.02018.x     Document Type: Review

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