Journal
CLINICAL REVIEWS IN ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 62, Issue 1, Pages 37-63Publisher
HUMANA PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1007/s12016-020-08810-9
Keywords
Plant allergens; Protein families; Allergenicity; Food processing; Matrix effect
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Funding
- European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Office
- COST [FA1402]
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia [UIDB 50006/2020]
- projects AlleRiskAssess [PTDC/BAA-AGR/31720/2017, NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-00001]
- FCT - POPH-QREN [PD/BD/114576/2016]
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia [OI172024]
- FCT [UIDB/04326/2020, 16-02-01-FMP0014]
- Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR) [PRIDE/11012546/NEXTIMMUNE]
- Personalised Medicine Consortium (PMC), Luxembourg [PMC/2017/02]
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This research searched for evidence on how different physicochemical properties affect the allergenicity of food proteins, and found consistent effects on protein allergenicity within the same protein family. Molecular stability was identified as the most common characteristic promoting plant protein allergenicity. However, there is still a lack of systematic approach to link physicochemical properties with clinical allergenicity.
This review searched for published evidence that could explain how different physicochemical properties impact on the allergenicity of food proteins and if their effects would follow specific patterns among distinct protein families. Owing to the amount and complexity of the collected information, this literature overview was divided in two articles, the current one dedicated to protein families of plant allergens and a second one focused on animal allergens. Our extensive analysis of the available literature revealed that physicochemical characteristics had consistent effects on protein allergenicity for allergens belonging to the same protein family. For example, protein aggregation contributes to increased allergenicity of 2S albumins, while for legumins and cereal prolamins, the same phenomenon leads to a reduction. Molecular stability, related to structural resistance to heat and proteolysis, was identified as the most common feature promoting plant protein allergenicity, although it fails to explain the potency of some unstable allergens (e.g. pollen-related food allergens). Furthermore, data on physicochemical characteristics translating into clinical effects are limited, mainly because most studies are focused on in vitro IgE binding. Clinical data assessing how these parameters affect the development and clinical manifestation of allergies is minimal, with only few reports evaluating the sensitising capacity of modified proteins (addressing different physicochemical properties) in murine allergy models. In vivo testing of modified pure proteins by SPT or DBPCFC is scarce. At this stage, a systematic approach to link the physicochemical properties with clinical plant allergenicity in real-life scenarios is still missing.
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