FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2010, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (17): 318-322.doi: 10.7506/spkx1002-6630-201017071

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Immunologic Cross-reactivity of Peanut Allergen Ara h 6 on the Basis of Epitope Prediction

ZHU Pan1,2,CHEN Hong-bing1,2,*,HU Chun-qiu1,2,LI Xin1,2,LUO Chun-ping1,2,3   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330047, China;2. Sino-German Joint
    Research Institute, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330047, China;3. School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering,
    Nanchang University, Nanchang 330047, China
  • Received:2010-06-11 Revised:2010-08-27 Online:2010-09-15 Published:2010-12-29
  • Contact: CHEN Hong-bing E-mail:chbgjy@hotmail.com;gjychb@yahoo.com.cn

Abstract:

In order to explain cross-reactivity between peanut allergen Ara h 6 and other homologous proteins, various kinds of bioinformationcal databases, including Genbank and DiscoTope, and net tools/software, including BLAST, NPS@, Protean, Clustal x and PyMOL, were used for the epitope analysis between these proteins. It was indicated that the linear epitopes on Ara h 6 existed with high probability in the regions of AA10-15, 45 -48, 53 -60 and 116 -118, and the conformational epitopes in the regions of AA1-13, 35-51, 53-59 and 89-105. According to the prediction of linear epitopes, there were fifteen proteins might cross-react with Ara h 6, and the possibility of cross-reactivity of four of them (Ara i 6, conglutin, Ara d 6 and conglutin 8) was 100%. However, according to the prediction of conformational epitopes, the number of proteins could cross-react with Ara h 6 with high probability was 17, and the possibility of cross-reactivity of four of them (Ara i 6, conglutin, Ara d 6 and conglutin 8) was 100%. These investigations will be beneficial for understanding peanut Ara h 6 allergy and help to develop an approach for the immunologic detection of Ara h 6 in foods in the future.

Key words: Ara h 6, peanut allergy, epitopes, cross-reactivity, prediction

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