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Allergen Details:

Allergen name: Cry j 2
Allergen source: Major taxonomic group: Plantae Pinopsida
Order: Cupressales
Species: Cryptomeria japonica (Sugi, Japanese cedar)
NCBI Taxomony ID: 3369
Biochemical name:Polygalacturonase
MW(SDS-PAGE):45 kDa (37 kDa non-red)
Allergenicity:>90% of 145 sera from CJ pollinosis patients reacted with purified Cry j 2 in ELISA. Dose-dependent histamine release in 2 patients tested - 10 of 14 sera of patients with Japanese cedar pollinosis reacted with Cry j 2 in IgE ELISA: medline 90342988.
Allergenicity reference:PubMed:8564723
Route of allergen exposure:Airway
Date Created:01-04-2003
Last Updated:2019-08-03 00:53:42
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Isoallergen and variants GenBank Nucleotide GenBank Protein UniProt PDB
Cry j 2.0101D29772BAA06172P43212