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ReviewFoods (Basel, Switzerland)2025

An Overview of Seafood Allergens: Structure-Allergenicity Relationship and Allergenicity Elimination Processing Techniques.

Yang Yang, Yehao Zhang, Xinrong He, Fei Huan, Jinli Chen, Meng Liu, Siyang He, Shinong Gu, Guangming Liu

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Review in Foods (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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9 authors.

Yang YangCollege of Environment and Public Health, Xiamen Huaxia University, 288 Tianma Road, Xiamen 361024, China.
Yehao ZhangCollege of Environment and Public Health, Xiamen Huaxia University, 288 Tianma Road, Xiamen 361024, China.
Xinrong HeCollege of Ocean Food and Biological Engineering, Jimei University, 43 Yindou Road, Xiamen 361021, China.
Fei HuanCollege of Ocean Food and Biological Engineering, Jimei University, 43 Yindou Road, Xiamen 361021, China.
Jinli ChenCollege of Environment and Public Health, Xiamen Huaxia University, 288 Tianma Road, Xiamen 361024, China.
Meng LiuCollege of Marine Biology, Xiamen Ocean Vocational College, Applied Technology Engineering Center of Fujian Provincial Higher Education for Marine Food Nutrition Safety and Advanced Processing, Xiamen 361102, China.
Siyang HeState Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
Shinong GuCollege of Environment and Public Health, Xiamen Huaxia University, 288 Tianma Road, Xiamen 361024, China.
Guangming LiuCollege of Ocean Food and Biological Engineering, Jimei University, 43 Yindou Road, Xiamen 361021, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8689-0504

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 31901811National Natural Science Foundation of China 32072336Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province 2023J011666Natural Science Foundation of Xiamen Municipality 3502Z202373132
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Seafood (fish, crustacean, and mollusk) allergy represents a critical global health issue. Food processing offers a viable strategy for allergenicity mitigation and serves as a critical intervention for seafood allergy prevention. This paper reviews recent advances in seafood allergen research, with particular focus on molecular properties, epitopes, and structure-allergenicity relationships, which are foundations for designing processing technologies to mitigate allergenicity. Furthermore, an analysis of how various food processing techniques modulate allergen structures and epitopes, ultimately affecting their allergenicity, was conducted. Current World Health Organization (WHO)/International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) listings include 44 fish allergens and 60 shellfish allergens, with their characterization enabling targeted processing approaches for allergenicity elimination. Physical processing techniques, including thermal and non-thermal treatment, can dramatically influence the conformational and linear epitopes by altering or destroying the structure of an allergen. Chemistry-based processing techniques (enzymatic-catalyzed cross-linking and glycation), which induce covalent/non-covalent interactions between allergens and various modifiers, can effectively mask epitopes through molecular complexation. Biological processing attenuates allergenicity by inducing protein unfolding, polypeptide chain uncoiling, and enzymatic degradation. Nevertheless, the structure-activity relationship of seafood allergens remains insufficiently elucidated, despite its critical role in guiding processing technologies for allergenicity elimination and elucidating the fundamental mechanisms involved.

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allergenic proteinelimination processingepitopesprotein structureseafood allergy

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PMID40646992
PMCPMC12248592

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