RESEARCH ARTICLE
Characterization of the Group I Allergen of Bahia Grass Pollen
J. M. White, A. Majidi, S. A. Naser, M. J. Sweeney, R. S. White*
Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL. USA.
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2009Volume: 2
First Page: 27
Last Page: 29
Publisher Id: TOALLJ-2-27
DOI: 10.2174/1874838400902010027
Article History:
Received Date: 13/6/2008Revision Received Date: 15/5/2009
Acceptance Date: 18/5/2009
Electronic publication date: 18/6/2009
Collection year: 2009
© 2009 White et al;
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open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Four allergenic proteins of Bahia (BA) grass pollen with estimated molecular weights of 45, 33, 31 and 28 kD were previously detected. Although all four proteins were reactive with BA grass allergic patient sera, the 33kD component was previously verified as a major allergen. The investigators report here for the first time, the similarities between the group I 33 kD allergen of BA grass, Pas n 1, and Group I allergen of Timothy grass, Phl p 1, using N-terminal amino acid sequencing and monoclonal antibodies, IG12 and BOT14, made to Timothy Phl p 1.
