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Allergen Details:

Allergen name: Bla g 4
Allergen source: Major taxonomic group: Animalia Arthropoda
Order: Blattodea
Species: Blattella germanica (German cockroach)
NCBI Taxomony ID: 6973
Biochemical name:Calycin, lipocalin
MW(SDS-PAGE):21 kDa
Allergenicity:Of 73 sera from CR-allergic patients (RAST >200 units/ml), 41% had IgE Ab to rBla g 4, as measured by RIA. In plaque immunoassay, 60% (47/73) of sera gave positive IgE antibody plaques to rBla g 4. Positive skin tests were obtained in 7 selected patients, using 10(-3)-10(-5) µg/ml rBla g 4
Allergenicity reference:PubMed:8537384
Route of allergen exposure:Airway
Date Created:16-05-2003
Last Updated:2020-03-24 19:11:06
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Isoallergen and variants GenBank Nucleotide GenBank Protein UniProt PDB
Bla g 4.0101U40767AAA87851P54962