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| Research article summary (published 30 May 2009): |
Cloning, expression, and mapping of allergenic determinants of alphaS1-casein, a major cow's milk allergen.
Full Abstract
Milk is one of the first components introduced into human diet. It also represents one of the first allergen sources, which induces IgE-mediated allergies in childhood ranging from gastrointestinal, skin, and respiratory manifestations to severe life-threatening manifestations, such as anaphylaxis. Here we isolated a cDNA coding for a major cow's milk allergen, alphaS1-casein, from a bovine mammary gland cDNA library with allergic patients' IgE Abs. Recombinant alphaS1-casein was expressed in Escherichia coli, purified, and characterized by circular dichroism as a folded protein. IgE epitopes of alphaS1-casein were determined with recombinant fragments and synthetic peptides spanning the alphaS1-casein sequence using microarrayed components and sera from 66 cow's milk-sensitized patients. The allergenic activity of ralphaS1-casein and the alphaS1-casein-derived peptides was determined using rat basophil leukemia cells transfected with human FcepsilonRI, which had been loaded with the patients' serum IgE. Our results demonstrate that ralphaS1-casein as well as alphaS1-casein-derived peptides exhibit IgE reactivity, but mainly the intact ralphaS1-casein induced strong basophil degranulation. These results suggest that primarily intact alphaS1-casein or larger IgE-reactive portions thereof are responsible for IgE-mediated symptoms of food allergy. Recombinant alphaS1-casein as well as alphaS1-casein-derived peptides may be used in clinical studies to further explore pathomechanisms of food allergy as well as for the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for milk allergy.
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Author/s: Schulmeister, Ulrike (U); Hochwallner, Heidrun (H); Swoboda, Ines (I); Focke-Tejkl, Margarete (M); Geller, Beate (B); Nystrand, Mats (M); Härlin, Annika (A); Thalhamer, Josef (J); Scheiblhofer, Sandra (S); Keller, Walter (W); Niggemann, Bodo (B); Quirce, Santiago (S); Ebner, Christoph (C); Mari, Adriano (A); Pauli, Gabrielle (G); Herz, Udo (U); Valenta, Rudolf (R); Spitzauer, Susanne (S);
Affiliation: Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) (J Immunol), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2009-Jun; vol 182 (issue 11) : pp 7019-29
Dates: Created 2009/05/20; Completed 2009/06/22;
PMID: 19454699, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 6/22/2009, IMS Date: )
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