Reduction of the Number of Major Representative Allergens: From Clinical Testing to 3-Dimensional Structures

• Main Authors: Ying He (Author), Xueting Liu (Author), Yuyi Huang (Author), Zehong Zou (Author), Huifang Chen (Author), He Lai (Author), Lida Zhang (Author), Qiurong Wu (Author), Junyan Zhang (Author), Shan Wang (Author), Jianguo Zhang (Author), Ailin Tao (Author), Baoqing Sun (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Vast amounts of allergen sequence data have been accumulated, thus complicating the identification of specific allergenic proteins when performing diagnostic allergy tests and immunotherapy. This study aims to rank the importance/potency of the allergens so as to logically reduce the number of aller...