Allergen Details:
| Allergen name: | Tri a 18 |
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Major taxonomic group: Plantae Liliopsida (monocots) Order: Poales Species: Triticum aestivum (Wheat) |
| Obsolete name: | Isolectin A, WGA1 |
| Biochemical name: | Agglutinin isolectin 1 |
| Allergenicity: | Wheat germ agglutinin (a fraction purified using a concanavalin-A affinity column) was identified as allergen for some but not all of the allergic bakers (sera from 35 individuals with suspected allergies to inhaled flour were tested). |
| Allergenicity reference: | PubMed:6697476 |
| Route of allergen exposure: | Food |
| Date Created: | 06-03-2003 |
| Last Updated: | 2010-04-29 23:57:55 |
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Comments
| Isoallergen and variants | GenBank Nucleotide | GenBank Protein | UniProt | PDB |
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| Tri a 18.0101 | M25536 | AAA34256 | P10968 | 1WGC 2CWG 7WGA; |
It is not clear whether this protein was identified as the IgE binding protein in wheat flour in the paper by Sutton et al., 1984, PMID 6697476