title: Identification and partial purification of pollen allergens from Artemisia princeps.
abstract: The pollen of Artemisia has been considered as the main late summer-autumn allergen source in this country. To identify its allergenic components, Artemisia princeps pollen extracts were separated by 10% sodium dodecylsulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), and transferred to nitrocellulose membrane, where IgE binding components were detected by the reaction with sera of twenty Artemisia-allergic patients and 125I-anti-human IgE, sixteen components in the molecular range of 10,000 and 85,000 daltons were detected. Twelve bands bound to IgE from 50% of the sera tested, and two bands (37,000, 23,000 daltons) showed the highest (85%) frequency of IgE-binding in twenty sera tested. When the gel of SDS-PAGE with Artemisia pollen extracts was sliced into 11 allergenic groups (AG) and the protein of each AG was obtained by the gel elution method, the wormwool-RAST inhibition test showed that the AG 10 demonstrated to be the most potent, and the AG 7 was the next. Six AGs showed significant responses (more than 100% of wheal size to histamine, 1 mg/ml) on the skin prick test in more than 50% of the patients tested. It is suggested that electrophoretic transfer analysis with SDS-PAGE may be a valuable method for Artemisia allergen identification, and the possibility of partial purification of allergens by employing gel elution is discussed.
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Hahm
mesh_terms: D015153:Blotting, Western / Q000379:methods; D004587:Electrophoresis, Agar Gel / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea; D008222:Lymphokines; D010944:Plants / Q000276:immunology; D011058:Pollen / Q000032:analysis / Q000276:immunology*; D029584:Prostatic Secretory Proteins; D012882:Skin Tests / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D008222:Lymphokines; D029584:Prostatic Secretory Proteins; C043076:beta-microseminoprotein; C013059:immunoglobulin-binding factors