Conservation analysis of B-cell allergen epitopes to predict clinical cross-reactivity between shellfish and inhalant invertebrate allergens
Nugraha, Roni, Kamath, Sandip D., Johnston, Elecia, Karnaneedi, Shaymaviswanathan, Ruethers, Thimo, and Lopata, Andreas L. (2019) Conservation analysis of B-cell allergen epitopes to predict clinical cross-reactivity between shellfish and inhalant invertebrate allergens. Frontiers in Immunology, 10. 2676.
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Abstract
Understanding and predicting an individual's clinical cross-reactivity to related allergens is a key to better management, treatment and progression of novel therapeutics for food allergy. In food allergy, clinical cross-reactivity is observed in patients reacting to unexpected allergen sources containing the same allergenic protein or antibody binding patches (epitopes), often resulting in severe allergic reactions. Shellfish allergy affects up to 2% of the world population and persists for life in most patients. The diagnosis of shellfish allergy is however often challenging due to reported clinical cross-reactivity to other invertebrates including mites and cockroaches. Prediction of cross-reactivity can be achieved utilizing an in-depth analysis of a few selected IgE-antibody binding epitopes. We combined available experimentally proven IgE-binding epitopes with informatics-based cross-reactivity prediction modeling to assist in the identification of clinical cross-reactive biomarkers on shellfish allergens. This knowledge can be translated into prevention and treatment of allergic diseases. To overcome the problem of predicting IgE cross-reactivity of shellfish allergens we developed an epitope conservation model using IgE binding epitopes available in the Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource. We applied this method to a set of four different shrimp allergens, and successfully identified several non-cross-reactive as well as cross-reactive epitopes, which have been experimentally established to cross-react. Based on these findings we suggest that this method can be used for advanced component-resolved-diagnosis to identify patients sensitized to a specific shellfish group and distinguish from patients with extensive cross-reactivity to ingested and inhaled allergens from invertebrate sources.
| Item ID: | 61287 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1664-3224 |
| Keywords: | shellfish allergens, IgE epitopes, B-cell epitopes, shellfish cross-reactivity, tropomyosin |
| Copyright Information: | © 2019 Nugraha, Kamath, Johnston, Karnaneedi, Ruethers and Lopata. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
| Funders: | Centre for Food Allergy Research (CFAR), James Cook University, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australian Research Council (ARC) |
| Projects and Grants: | JCU Postgraduate Research Scholarship, NHMRC Peter Doherty ECR fellow |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Dec 2019 07:39 |
| FoR Codes: | 32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES > 3204 Immunology > 320401 Allergy @ 100% |
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