Ligand Recognition of the Major Birch Pollen Allergen Bet v 1 is Isoform Dependent

Ligand Recognition of the Major Birch Pollen Allergen Bet v 1 is Isoform Dependent

Each spring millions of patients suffer from allergies when birch pollen is released into the air. In most cases, the major pollen allergen Bet v 1 is the elicitor of the allergy symptoms. Bet v 1 comes in a variety of isoforms that share virtually identical conformations, but their relative concentrations are plant-specific. Glycosylated flavonoids, such as quercetin-3-O-sophoroside, are the p...

NMR resonance assignments of a hypoallergenic isoform of the major birch pollen allergen Bet v 1

In Northern America and Europe a great number of people are suffering from birch pollen allergy and pollen related food allergies. The trigger for these immunological reactions is the 17.5 kDa major birch pollen allergen Bet v 1, which belongs to the family of PR-10 (pathogenesis-related) proteins. In nature, Bet v 1 occurs as a mixture of various isoforms that possess different immunological p...

Trimolecular complex between major birch pollen allergen, Bet v 1, monoclonal allergen-specific human IgE and recombinant CD23

CD23 the low affinity receptor for IgE plays an important role in allergic disease because it facilitates allergen presentation to T cells. CD23 is a 45 kDa trans-membrane protein consisting of an alpha-helical stalk and a head domain, which is mainly expressed on B cells. In order to analyze the complex formation between allergen, allergenspecific IgE and CD23 on the molecular level, we expres...

T cell epitope-containing hypoallergenic recombinant fragments of the major birch pollen allergen, Bet v 1, induce blocking antibodies.

Allergen-specific immunotherapy represents one of the few curative approaches toward type I allergy. Up to 25% of allergic patients are sensitized against the major birch pollen allergen, Bet v 1. By genetic engineering we produced two recombinant (r) Bet v 1 fragments comprising aa 1-74 and aa 75-160 of Bet v 1, which, due to a loss of their native-like fold, failed to bind IgE Abs and had red...

Antibodies Pollen Allergen , Bet v 1 , Induce Blocking Recombinant Fragments of the Major Birch T Cell Epitope - Containing Hypoallergenic