ALLERGEN NOMENCLATURE
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Allergen Details:

Allergen name: Blo t 5
Allergen source: Major taxonomic group: Animalia Arthropoda
Order: Sarcoptiformes
Species: Blomia tropicalis (Storage mite)
NCBI Taxomony ID: 40697
Biochemical name:Group 5/21 allergen
MW(SDS-PAGE):14 kDa
Allergenicity:Recombinant Blo t 5 reacted with 37 out of 83 (45%; region 1) or 11 out of 55 (20%; region 2) sera from mite-allergic patients in RIA, and induced positive immediate skin tests at 10(-3) to 1 microg/ml. - Of 49 sera from mite-allergic Malaysian children, 36 (73.5%) had IgE responses to rBlo t 5, as measured by ELISA. Of 45 patients tested, 14 (31.1%) had positive skin prick tests to rBlo t 5.
Allergenicity reference:PubMed:9001334PubMed:12642844
Route of allergen exposure:Airway
Date Created:29-04-2003
Last Updated:2023-11-09 13:15:18
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Isoallergen and variants GenBank Nucleotide GenBank Protein UniProt PDB
Blo t 5.0101U59102AAD10850O968702JRK 2JMH 2MEY