New insights into the allergenicity of tropomyosin: a bioinformatics approach

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 6509-6517

  González Fernández, Juan ^a   Rodero, Marta ^a   Daschner, Alvaro ^b   Cuéllar, Carmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Allergy; Anisakis simplex; Bioinformatics; Epitopes; Evolutionary Marker; Tropomyosin

Indexed keywords

TROPOMYOSIN; ALLERGEN;

ALLERGENICITY; ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOGENICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THUNNUS THYNNUS; TUNA; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VERTEBRATE;

ANISAKIS SIMPLEX; INVERTEBRATA; THUNNUS THYNNUS; VERTEBRATA;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TROPOMYOSIN; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84919399349     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-014-3534-6     Document Type: Article

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