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CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY
Volume 21, Issue 11, Pages 1445-1451Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2014.08.019
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [R03 AI085485, R56 AI108884]
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Allergy is an immune response to complex mixtures of multiple allergens, yet current models use a single synthetic allergen. Multiple allergens were modeled using two well-defined tetravalent allergens, each specific for a distinct IgE, thus enabling a systematic approach to evaluate the effect of each allergen and percentage of allergen-specific IgE on mast cell degranulation. We found the overall degranulation response caused by two allergens is additive for low allergen concentrations or low percent specific IgE, does not change for moderate allergen concentrations with moderate to high percent specific IgE, and is reduced for high allergen concentrations with moderate to high percent specific IgE. These results provide further evidence that supraoptimal IgE crosslinking decreases the degranulation response and establishes the two-allergen model as a relevant experimental system to elucidate mast cell degranulation mechanisms.
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