Proteomic approaches for identifying new allergens and diagnosing allergic diseases.

[EN] Allergic diseases are (IgE)-mediated hypersensitivity reactions affecting more than 25% of the world's population. Proteomic technologies have been increasingly used in the field of allergy and include the use of protein microarrays and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis coupled with immu...

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Autores: González de Buitrago Arriero, José Manuel, Ferreira, Laura, Isidoro García, María, Sanz Lozano, Catalina Sofía, Lorente Toledano, Félix, Dávila González, Ignacio Jesús
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
OAI Identifier:oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/159018
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10366/159018
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Allergen
Allergic diseases
Immunoblotting
Microarrays
Proteomics
Genetics
Hypersensitivity
Proteins
Animals
Epitopes
Humans
Allergy and Immunology
Allergens
Mass Spectrometry
3207.01 Alergias
2409 Genética
proteínas
hipersensibilidad
alergia e inmunología
animales
humanos
espectrometría de masas
proteómica
alérgenos
epítopos
genética
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Sumario:[EN] Allergic diseases are (IgE)-mediated hypersensitivity reactions affecting more than 25% of the world's population. Proteomic technologies have been increasingly used in the field of allergy and include the use of protein microarrays and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis coupled with immunoblotting. The literature relevant to proteomic approaches to allergic diseases was searched using MEDLINE database. We reviewed proteomics approaches and applications, focusing specifically on two-dimensional immunoblotting techniques and allergen microarrays. The results obtained show that proteomic approaches using two-dimensional immunoblotting appear to be a powerful strategy for the identification of allergenic proteins. Likewise, the use of allergen microarrays allows a large number of IgE antibodies to be simultaneously identified. Proteomic approaches are only beginning to be applied to the study of allergy. In the field of in vitro diagnosis, allergen microarrays provide a promising tool not routinely used in the allergy laboratory. In the near future this powerful technique will be used as a standard technique for in vitro diagnosis of allergy.