ALLERGEN NOMENCLATURE
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Allergen Details:

Allergen name: Alt a 5
Allergen source: Major taxonomic group: Fungi Ascomycota
Order: Pleosporales
Species: Alternaria alternata (Alternaria plant rot fungus)
NCBI Taxomony ID: 5599
Obsolete name:Alt a 6
Biochemical name:Ribosomal protein P2
MW(SDS-PAGE):11 kDa
Allergenicity:- 6 out of 43 sera (14%) from A.alternaria-sensitive patients showed IgE binding to rAlt a 6 on immunoblot. - Of 98 A.alternata-sensitized patients (positive immunoblot of A.alternata extract), 8% showed IgE binding to Alt a 6 on immunoblot: medline 95206305 and 95337840
Allergenicity reference:PubMed:9693275
Route of allergen exposure:Airway
Date Created:25-09-2009
Last Updated:2019-06-28 18:25:41
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Table of IsoAllergens Click +/- for additional information
Isoallergen and variants GenBank Nucleotide GenBank Protein UniProt PDB
Alt a 5.0101X78222 U87806CAA55066 AAB48041P42037