Transient dimers of allergens

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Rouvinen, Juha ^a   Jänis, Janne ^a   Laukkanen, Marja Leena ^b   Jylhä, Sirpa ^b   Niemi, Merja ^a   Päivinen, Tero ^a   Mäkinen Kiljunen, Soili ^c   Haahtela, Tari ^c   Söderlund, Hans ^b   Takkinen, Kristiina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; DIMER; HISTAMINE; OLIGOMER; ALTB1 PROTEIN, ALTERNARIA BRASSICICOLA; BET V 1 ALLERGEN, BETULA VERRUCOSA; MALD1 PROTEIN, MALUS DOMESTICA; PLANT ANTIGEN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALLERGENICITY; ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; HISTAMINE RELEASE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; BASOPHIL; CATTLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PLANT; BASOPHILS; CATTLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HISTAMINE RELEASE; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY;

EID: 77949361437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009037     Document Type: Article

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