title: Investigating cockroach allergens: aiming to improve diagnosis and treatment of cockroach allergic patients.
abstract: Cockroach allergy is an important health problem associated with the development of asthma, as a consequence of chronic exposure to low levels of allergens in susceptible individuals. In the last 20 years, progress in understanding the disease has been possible, thanks to the identification and molecular cloning of cockroach allergens and their expression as recombinant proteins. Assays for assessment of environmental allergen exposure have been developed and used to measure Bla g 1 and Bla g 2, as markers of cockroach exposure. IgE antibodies to cockroach extracts and to specific purified allergens have been measured to assess sensitization and analyze association with exposure and disease. With the development of the field of structural biology and the expression of recombinant cockroach allergens, insights into allergen structure, function, epitope mapping and allergen-antibody interactions have provided further understanding of mechanisms of cockroach allergic disease at the molecular level. This information will contribute to develop new approaches to allergen avoidance and to improve diagnosis and therapy of cockroach allergy.
authors.affiliation: Indoor Biotechnologies, Inc., Charlottesville, VA, USA. Electronic address: apomes@inbio.com.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pomés
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Luisa Karla
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Arruda
mesh_terms: D000485:Allergens / Q000276:immunology*; D000818:Animals; D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000276:immunology; D003058:Cockroaches / Q000276:immunology*; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D006801:Humans; D007167:Immunotherapy; D019476:Insect Proteins / Q000276:immunology*; D015995:Prevalence; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000485:Allergens; D019476:Insect Proteins; D011994:Recombinant Proteins
keywords: Asthma; Cockroach allergy; Diagnosis; Environmental exposure; Immunotherapy; Recombinant allergens
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