Effector activity of peanut allergens: A critical role for Ara h 2, Ara h 6, and their variants

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1099-1108

  Porterfield, H S ^b   Murray, K S ^c   Schlichting, D G ^b   Chen, X ^b   Hansen, K C ^b,c   Duncan, M W ^b,c   Dreskin, S C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Children's Hospital Colorado   (United States)

Author keywords

Allergens; Basophils; IgE; Mast cells; Peanuts

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; ARA H 2 PROTEIN; ARA H 6 PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; ISOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALLERGENICITY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASOPHIL DEGRANULATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEANUT; PEANUT ALLERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN VARIANT; RAT;

2S ALBUMINS, PLANT; ALLERGENS; ANTIGENS, PLANT; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MAST CELLS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PEANUT HYPERSENSITIVITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 66749094873     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2009.03273.x     Document Type: Article

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