title: Homology of a bovine allergen and the oligomycin sensitivity-conferring protein of the mitochondrial adenosine triphosphate synthase complex.
abstract: We have characterized bovine allergens by constructing and analyzing a complementary DNA library from bovine skin. Clones producing proteins that reacted with IgE antibodies from persons with allergy were purified and sequenced. One set of the allergen-coding clones showed an almost complete homology with the bovine oligomycin sensitivity-conferring protein of the mitochondrial adenosine triphosphate synthase complex. The IgE antibodies adsorbed with the recombinant allergen reacted with an 11 kd protein in the cow dander extract. Binding of the IgE from patients allergic to the recombinant allergen expressed in Escherichia coli confirmed the allergen-coding ability of the complementary DNA sequence. The prevalence of the IgE-positive sera among patients with cow allergy and control subjects suggests that the recombinant allergen represents one of the minor allergens in cow dander. This is the first time a mammalian allergen has been identified as a protein with a known function.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Microbiology, University of Kuopio, Finland.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Parkkinen
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rytkönen
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pentikäinen
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Virtanen
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mäntyjärvi
mesh_terms: D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D000485:Allergens / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D002417:Cattle; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000235:genetics; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000737:chemistry; D025261:Mitochondrial Proton-Translocating ATPases; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D000485:Allergens; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases; D025261:Mitochondrial Proton-Translocating ATPases; C020439:oligomycin sensitivity-conferring protein