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ArticleScientific reports2017

Peptidomics of an in vitro digested α-Gal carrying protein revealed IgE-reactive peptides.

D Apostolovic, M Krstic, J Mihailovic, M Starkhammar, T Cirkovic Velickovic, C Hamsten, M van Hage

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

D ApostolovicDepartment of Medicine Solna, Immunology and Allergy Unit, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
M KrsticDepartment of Medicine Solna, Immunology and Allergy Unit, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
J MihailovicCenter of Excellence for Molecular Food Sciences, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Chemistry, Belgrade, Serbia.
M StarkhammarDepartment of Internal Medicine, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden.
T Cirkovic VelickovicCenter of Excellence for Molecular Food Sciences, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Chemistry, Belgrade, Serbia.
C HamstenDepartment of Medicine Solna, Immunology and Allergy Unit, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
M van HageDepartment of Medicine Solna, Immunology and Allergy Unit, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. marianne.van.hage@ki.se.
University of Belgrade · RSKarolinska Institutet · SEKarolinska University Hospital · SEStockholm South General Hospital · SE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The mammalian carbohydrate galactose-α1,3-galactose (α-Gal) causes a novel form of food allergy, red meat allergy, where patients experience severe allergic reactions several hours after red meat consumption. Here we explored gastric digestion of α-Gal glycoproteins using an in vitro model. Bovine thyroglobulin (BTG), a typical α-Gal carrying glycoprotein, was digested with pepsin. The resulting peptides were characterised by SDS PAGE, immunoblot and ImmunoCAP using sera from 20 red meat allergic patients. During pepsinolysis of BTG, a wide range of peptide bands was observed of which 14 to 17 kDa peptides remained stable throughout the gastric phase. The presence of the α-Gal epitope on the obtained peptides was demonstrated by an anti-α-Gal antibody and IgE from red meat allergic patients. The α-Gal digests were able to inhibit up to 86% of IgE reactivity to BTG. Importantly, basophil activation test demonstrated that the allergenic activity of BTG was retained after digestion in all four tested patients. Mass spectrometry-based peptidomics revealed that these peptides represent mostly internal and C-terminal parts of the protein, where the most potent IgE-binding α-Gal residues were identified at Asn

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AllergensAnimalsBasophilsCattleCells, CulturedFood HypersensitivityGalactoseHumansImmunoglobulin EPeptide FragmentsRed MeatThyroglobulinAllergensGalactoseImmunoglobulin EPeptide FragmentsThyroglobulin

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PMID28701697
PMCPMC5507865
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