Purification and characterisation of relevant natural and recombinant apple allergens

Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Volumn 52, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2008, Pages

  Oberhuber, Christina ^a   Ma, Yan ^b   Marsh, Justin ^c   Rigby, Neil ^d   Smole, Ursula ^b   Radauer, Christian ^b   Alessandri, Stefano ^e   Briza, Peter ^f   Zuidmeer, Laurian ^g   Maderegger, Bernhard ^a   Himly, Martin ^f   Sancho, Ana I ^d   Van Ree, Ronald ^g   Knulst, André ^h   Ebner, Christof ⁱ   Shewry, Peter ^b   Mills, E N Clare ^d   Wellner, Klaus ^d   Breiteneder, Heimo ^b   Hoffmann Sommergruber, Karin ^b   Bublin, Merima ^b   more..

^a BIOMAY AG   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

ⁱ Allergie Ambulatorium Rennweg Vienna   (Austria)

Author keywords

Apple; Apple allergens; Food allergens; Malus domestica; PR proteins

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MAL D 2 ALLERGEN, MALUS DOMESTICA; MAL D 3 ALLERGEN; MAL D 4 ALLERGEN, MALUS DOMESTICA; MALD1 PROTEIN, MALUS DOMESTICA; PLANT ANTIGEN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

APPLE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM;

ALLERGENS; ANTIGENS, PLANT; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALUS; PLANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 56749178798     PISSN: 16134125     EISSN: 16134133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.200700522     Document Type: Article

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