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Allergen Details:

Allergen name: Bla g 9
Lineage: Source: Animalia Arthropoda
Order: Blattodea
Species: Blattella germanica (German cockroach)
Biochemical name:Arginine kinase
MW(SDS-PAGE):40 kDa
Allergenicity:Two studies including this data by A Pomes with 6 of 10 subjects who are positive by case history for airway allergy, and positive by SPT with extract of Blatella germanica having also positive IgE by ImmunoCAP using Picchia produced recombinant Bla g 9 as the target(not yet published). Study by Chuang et al., 2010 with more than 7 subjects from Taiwan (>34%) with allergy and cockroach specific IgE being clearly positive by solid-phased immunobinding with native protein. A third study by Dillon et al., PMID 26414909 identified Th2 epitopes using cells from allergic subjects.
Allergenicity ref.:20960453
Food allergen:No
Date Created:2017-01-14 10:27:01
Last Updated:2017-01-15 10:41:14
Submitter Info:
Name:Anna Pomes
Institution:Indoor Biotechnologies, Inc.
City:Charlottesvill, VA USA
Email:apomes@inbio.com
Date:2017-01-06

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Isoallergen and variants GenBank Nucleotide GenBank Protein UniProt PDB
Bla g 9.0101DQ358231.1ABC86902