Rubber Elongation Factor (REF), a Major Allergen Component in Hevea brasiliensis Latex Has Amyloid Properties

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Berthelot, Karine ^a   Lecomte, Sophie ^b   Estevez, Yannick ^a   Coulary Salin, Bénédicte ^c   Bentaleb, Ahmed ^b   Cullin, Christophe ^c   Deffieux, Alain ^a   Peruch, Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; AMYLOID; ISOPRENOID; LATEX; PROTEIN; RUBBER; RUBBER ELONGATION FACTOR; SMALL RUBBER PARTICLE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALLERGENICITY; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; BIOSYNTHESIS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELLIPSOMETRY; HEVEA BRASILIENSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIPID MONOLAYER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRESS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ALLERGENS; AMYLOID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENDOPEPTIDASE K; FLUORESCENT DYES; HEVEA; LATEX; LIPIDS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RUBBER; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SURFACE PROPERTIES; X-RAYS;

HEVEA BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 84868087359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048065     Document Type: Article

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