Allergenic cross-reactivity of olive pollen |
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Authors: | González E M Villalba M Rodríguez R |
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Affiliation: | Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Química, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain. |
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Abstract: | BACKGROUND: Sera of patients allergic to olive (Olea europaea) pollen were used to analyze the IgE cross-reactivity between olive-pollen extract and other pollens obtained from phylogenetically unrelated species. METHODS: We used IgE immunostaining of pollen extracts blotted to nitrocellulose membranes after SDS-PAGE and inhibition analysis of this binding. RESULTS: A high inhibition of the IgE binding on olive-pollen extract was exhibited by birch, mugwort, pine, and cypress pollens, suggesting that these extracts contain proteins which share common epitopes and thus can be recognized by olive-allergic sera. IgE binding to Gramineae pollen extracts was not inhibited by olive-pollen extract, indicating a primary sensitization of the patients to these species. From the inhibition assays, the presence of an allergen of 45 kDa in the olive pollen, which has no homologous counterparts in other allergenic species, has been inferred. CONCLUSIONS: Olive pollen contains allergens which cross-react with pollens from unrelated species, a fact that could simplify the diagnosis and treatment of pollinosis. |
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Keywords: | allergens cross-reactivity IgE binding olive pollen pollinosis |
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