Vitellogenins Are New High Molecular Weight Components and Allergens (Api m 12 and Ves v 6) of Apis mellifera and Vespula vulgaris Venom

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Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Blank, Simon ^a   Seismann, Henning ^a   McIntyre, Mareike ^b   Ollert, Markus ^b   Wolf, Sara ^a   Bantleon, Frank I ^a   Spillner, Edzard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; API M 12 ALLERGEN; BEE VENOM; CARBOHYDRATE; CELL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INSECT PROTEIN; INSECT VENOM; PEPTIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VES V 6 ALLERGEN; VITELLOGENIN; YELLOW JACKET VENOM; API M 12 ALLERGEN, APIS MELLIFERA; VES V 6 ALLERGEN, VESPULA VULGARIS; WASP VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; APIS MELLIFERA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; INSECT CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VESPULA VULGARIS; ANIMAL; BEE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; DESENSITIZATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INSECT BITE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SF9 CELL LINE; WASP;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; VESPULA VULGARIS;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BEE VENOMS; BEES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DESENSITIZATION, IMMUNOLOGIC; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SF9 CELLS; VITELLOGENINS; WASP VENOMS; WASPS;

EID: 84876541872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062009     Document Type: Article

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