Molecular and immunological characterization of a wheat serine proteinase inhibitor as a novel allergen in baker's asthma

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 180, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 7451-7460

  Constantin, Claudia ^a   Quirce, Santiago ^c   Grote, Monika ^d   Touraev, Alisher ^a   Swoboda, Ines ^a   Stoecklinger, Angelika ^b   Mari, Adriano ^e   Thalhamer, Josef ^b   Heberle Bors, Erwin ^a   Valenta, Rudolf ^a,f  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^e LABORATORIO DI PATOLOGIA VASCOLARE   (Italy)

^f INSTITUTE FOR MICROELECTRONICS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; ALLERGEN;

ALEURONE; ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BEAN; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOSPERM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD ALLERGY; HUMAN; MAIZE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PATHOGENESIS; POLLEN; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WHEAT; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT SEED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; WHEAT ALLERGY;

ADULT; ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASTHMA; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PHYLOGENY; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; TRITICUM; WHEAT HYPERSENSITIVITY;

EID: 47249156493     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.180.11.7451     Document Type: Article

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