Updates on Databases of Allergens and Allergen-Epitopes

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The increasing prevalence of allergic diseases is of great public health concern. Environmental and food allergens are the major triggers of allergic diseases via respiratory or gastrointestinal routes, respectively. A major setback in the clinical management of allergies is the unavailability of purified allergens required for diagnostic purposes. Furthermore, manipulation of allergen sequences and structures by employing protein-engineering approaches is needed to design immunotherapeutic vaccines. All these approaches rely upon the sequence, structure, and epitope location of allergens. A number of databases have therefore been developed that serve as repositories of molecular information of allergens. In this chapter, we discuss the five most important widely used allergen databases that might be helpful for the research community working on molecular allergology.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:2673

Enthalten in:

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 2673(2023) vom: 31., Seite 151-165

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sarkar, Rajat Kanti [VerfasserIn]
Ghosh, Nandini [VerfasserIn]
Sircar, Gaurab [VerfasserIn]
Saha, Sudipto [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Allergen
Allergens
Bioinformatics
Cross-reactivity
Database
Epitopes
IgE-antibody
IgE-epitope
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 02.06.2023

Date Revised 06.06.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/978-1-0716-3239-0_10

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NLM357610261