Food safety assessment of an antifungal protein from Moringa oleifera seeds in an agricultural biotechnology perspective

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 83, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-9

  Pinto, Clidia E M ^a   Farias, Davi F ^a   Carvalho, Ana F U ^a   Oliveira, José T A ^a   Pereira, Mirella L ^a   Grangeiro, Thalles B ^a   Freire, José E C ^a   Viana, Daniel A ^b   Vasconcelos, Ilka M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Allergen; Chitin binding protein; Mo CBP3< inf>; Risk assessment; Transgenic crops; Weight of evidence

Indexed keywords

CBP3 PROTEIN; PAPAIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; ALLERGEN; CHITIN; ISOPROTEIN; LIGAND; PLANT ANTIGEN; PROTEIN INTAKE;

ALLERGENICITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; FOOD SAFETY; IN VITRO STUDY; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MORINGA OLEIFERA; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BRAZIL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DEUTEROMYCETES; DIGESTION; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN INTAKE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMALIA; MORINGA OLEIFERA;

ALLERGENS; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PLANT; BRAZIL; CHITIN; DIETARY PROTEINS; DIGESTION; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; FOOD, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MORINGA OLEIFERA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEEDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84931273591     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2015.05.012     Document Type: Article

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