Insights into proteolytic processing of the major peanut allergen Ara h 2 by endogenous peanut proteases

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1702-1708

  Radosavljevic, Jelena ^a   Dobrijevic, Dragana ^a,d   Jadranin, Milka ^b   Blanusa, Milan ^c   Vukmirica, Jelena ^a   Velickovic, Tanja Cirkovic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Institute for Chemistry   (Serbia)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Ara h 2; Ara h 6; Food allergy; IgE binding; Proteolysis

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; ARA H 2 ALLERGEN, ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; DIPEPTIDE; GLYCOPROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; NAPIN; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE; PLANT ANTIGEN; PLANT EXTRACT; TYROSINE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; HYDROLYSIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISOMERISM; METABOLISM; PEANUT;

2S ALBUMINS, PLANT; ALLERGENS; ANTIGENS, PLANT; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; DIPEPTIDES; GLYCOPROTEINS; HYDROLYSIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; ISOMERISM; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT PROTEINS; TYROSINE;

ARA; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA;

EID: 77954404613     PISSN: 00225142     EISSN: 10970010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.4005     Document Type: Article

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