Lipids are distributed in a highly heterogeneous fashion in different cellular membranes.
Only a minority of lipids achieve their final intracellular distribution through transport by …

Peanut allergens have the potential to negatively impact on the health and quality of life of
millions of consumers worldwide. The seeds of the peanut plant Arachis hypogaea contain …

Since the discovery of immunoglobulin E (IgE) as a mediator of allergic diseases in 1967,
our knowledge about the immunological mechanisms of IgE‐mediated allergies has …

ABSTRACT Introduction Allergies affect 20-30% of the population and respiratory allergies
are mostly due to pollen grains from anemophilous plants. One to 5% of people suffer from …

Many allergens feature hydrophobic cavities that allow the binding of primarily hydrophobic
small‐molecule ligands. Ligand‐binding specificities can be strict or promiscuous. Serum …

The term allergy was coined in 1906 by the Austrian scientist and pediatrician Clemens
Freiherr von Pirquet. In 1976, Dietrich Kraft became the head of the Allergy and Immunology …

Major latex-like proteins (MLPs) have been identified in dicots and monocots. They are
members of the birch pollen allergen Bet v 1 family as well as pathogenesis-related proteins …

Pathogenesis‐related (PR) proteins constitute a broad class of plant proteins with
analogues found throughout nature from bacteria to higher eukaryotes. PR proteins were …

Background Over 100 million people worldwide suffer from birch pollen allergy. Bet v 1 has
been identified as the major birch pollen allergen. However, the molecular mechanisms of …

Among the vast number of identified protein families, allergens emanate from relatively few
families which translates to only a small fraction of identified protein families. In allergy …