Atopic allergens of plant foods
- 1 June 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology
- Vol. 1 (3) , 261-267
- https://doi.org/10.1097/01.all.0000011024.76416.01
Abstract
The exact knowledge of what structural characteristics of an antigen are responsible for its allergenicity may not be available for several years. However, it is striking that the majority of the plant food allergens are clustered within a few protein families, and these are reviewed in this article. In most cases, plant food allergens are proteins that ensure the survival of the species as either seed storage proteins or proteins that are actively involved in the defence of the organism.Keywords
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