Overview of the Commonly Used Methods for Food Allergens.
Food allergy has become a major public health problem worldwide. In the past two decades, development in molecular biology and immunology has led to many new techniques that had improved traditional methods in the food allergy field. These methods greatly facilitate identification, characterization, and quantification of food allergen and are certainly leading to better diagnostics and therapeutics for food allergic diseases. Here we review methods commonly used for food allergens.
Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, Singapore, Singapore. linj@bii.a-star.edu.sg.|Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, Singapore, Singapore. linj@bii.a-star.edu.sg.|Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. linj@bii.a-star.edu.sg.
Jing
J
Lin
School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Leicestershire, Nottingham, UK.
Marcos
M
Alcocer
D000485:Allergens / Q000276:immunology*; D000818:Animals; D005512:Food Hypersensitivity / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans
D000485:Allergens
Allergen quantification; Allergy diagnostics; Epitope mapping; Food allergens; Recombinant allergen