Identification of Almond (<i>Prunus dulcis</i>) Vicilin As a Food Allergen

Che, Huilian; Zhang, Yuzhu; Lyu, Shu‐Chen; C. Nadeau, Kari; H. McHugh, Tara

doi:10.1021/acs.jafc.8b05290

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Identification of Almond (Prunus dulcis) Vicilin As a Food Allergen

Published in Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry • Dec 4, 2018

Authors:

Huilian Che

Yuzhu Zhang

Shu‐Chen Lyu

Abstract

Almond is one of the tree nuts listed by U.S. FDA as a food allergen source. A food allergen identified with patient sera has been debated to be the 2S albumin or the 7S vicilin. However, neither of these proteins has been defined as a food allergen. The purpose of this study was to clone, express, ...

Subject

Vicilin

Allergen

Prunus dulcis

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