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β-lactoglobulin mutation Ala86Gln improves its ligand binding and reduces its immunoreactivity.
International journal of biological macromolecules - 1 Nov 2015
Kazem-Farzandi Najmeh, Taheri-Kafrani Asghar, Haertlé Thomas
Abstract excerpt
β-Lactoglobulin (β-LG) is a member of lipocalin superfamily of transporters for small hydrophobic molecules. β-LG is also one of the major allergens in milk. Despite a lot of researches on decreasing of cow's milk allergenicity, the effects of the mutation of β-LG on its recognition by IgE from cow's milk allergy (CMA) patients have not been investigated. We described here the expression in the yeast Pichia...
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