Identification of microcystis aeruginosa peptides responsible for allergic sensitization and characterization of functional interactions between cyanobacterial toxins and immunogenic peptides

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1159-1166

  Geh, Esmond N ^a   Ghosh, Debajyoti ^a   McKell, Melanie ^b   de la Cruz, Armah A ^c   Stelma, Gerard ^c   Bernstein, Jonathan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL EXTRACT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MICROCYSTIN; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALLERGEN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; BETA N ACETYLHEXOSAMINIDASE; CYANOBACTERIAL TOXIN; MARINE TOXIN; PHYCOCYANIN;

ADULT; ALLERGENICITY; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYTOTOXICITY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA; MIDDLE AGED; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; YOUNG ADULT; ANIMAL; BASOPHIL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROCYSTIS; RAT; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASOPHILS; BETA-N-ACETYLHEXOSAMINIDASES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CYTOTOXICITY TESTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MARINE TOXINS; MICROCYSTINS; MICROCYSTIS; PEPTIDES; PHYCOCYANIN; RATS;

EID: 84946049953     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1409065     Document Type: Article

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