Mapping of a conformational epitope on the cashew allergen Ana o 2: A discontinuous large subunit epitope dependent upon homologous or heterologous small subunit association

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1808-1816

  Xia, Lixin ^a   Willison, LeAnna N ^a   Porter, Lauren ^a   Robotham, Jason M ^a   Teuber, Suzanne S ^b   Sathe, Shridhar K ^a   Roux, Kenneth H ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

11S globulin; Cashew; Conformational epitope; Electron microscopy; Epitope map; Food allergy; Legumin; Tree nut

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ALLERGEN; AVENIN; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; EPITOPE; GLOBULIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SOYBEAN PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BINDING COMPETITION; CASHEW NUT; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPITOPE MAPPING; FOOD ALLERGY; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RESIDUE ANALYSIS;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; EPITOPE MAPPING; HUMANS; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANACARDIUM OCCIDENTALE; GLYCINE MAX; MURINAE;

EID: 77952314827     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2010.01.018     Document Type: Article

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