期刊
METHODS
卷 66, 期 1, 页码 3-21出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2013.07.024
关键词
Allergen structure; Protein family; X-ray; NMR; IgE epitope; Structure based epitope prediction
资金
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project [F4604]
- Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth (BMWFJ)
- Federal Ministry of Traffic, Innovation and Technology (bmvit)
- Styrian Business Promotion Agency SFG
- Standortagentur Tirol
- ZIT Technology Agency of the City of Vienna through the COMET Funding Program
The structure determination of major allergens is a prerequisite for analyzing surface exposed areas of the allergen and for mapping conformational epitopes. These may be determined by experimental methods including crystallographic and NMR-based approaches or predicted by computational methods. In this review we summarize the existing structural information on allergens and their classification in protein fold families. The currently available allergen-antibody complexes are described and the experimentally obtained epitopes compared. Furthermore we discuss established methods for linear and conformational epitope mapping, putting special emphasis on a recently developed approach, which uses the structural similarity of proteins in combination with the experimental cross-reactivity data for epitope prediction. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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