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Allergen Details:

Allergen name: Hom a 1
Allergen source: Major taxonomic group: Animalia Arthropoda
Order: Decapoda
Species: Homarus americanus (American lobster)
NCBI Taxomony ID: 6706
Biochemical name:Tropomyosin
MW(SDS-PAGE):34 kDa
Allergenicity:Recombinant Hom a I was recognized by IgE from patients with crustacean allergies. When preabsorbed with rHom a I, sera lost their IgE reactivity to muscle extract of H. americanus.
Allergenicity reference:PubMed:9597774
Route of allergen exposure:Food
Date Created:24-06-2003
Last Updated:2019-08-27 21:51:34
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Posted: 08 Apr 2015

April 8, 2015, we determined the PDB crystal structure entry for lobster tropomyosin was really a pig (Sus sp.) tropomyosin. The entry was removed REG

Table of IsoAllergens Click +/- for additional information
Isoallergen and variants GenBank Nucleotide GenBank Protein UniProt PDB
Hom a 1.0101AF034953AAC48287O44119-1 
Hom a 1.0102AF034954AAC48288O44119-2