Article
A ω-secalin contained decamer shows a celiac disease prevention activity
2012-03-01
Abstract excerpt
Celiac disease (CD) is an autoimmune permanent enteropathy that is triggered in susceptible individuals after the ingestion of gluten, a storage protein fraction presents in wheat, rye and barley endosperm. Specific gluten peptides can bind to HLA-DQ2/8 and induce lamina propria CD4⁺ T cell responses causing damage of the small intestine mucosa. Recent studies suggested that beside immunodominant and toxic epitope...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6733765a-10d8-5c0b-b960-bda855f2129e
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jcs.2011.12.006
