Profiling serum antibodies with a pan allergen phage library identifies key wheat allergy epitopes

Autor: Pamela A. Frischmeyer-Guerrerio, Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn, Audrey C. Knight, Daniel R. Monaco, Thomas R. Nirschl, Brandon M. Sie, Robert A. Wood, H. Benjamin Larman, Robert G. Hamilton, Hugh A. Sampson
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2021)
Nature Communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Popis: Allergic reactions occur when IgE molecules become crosslinked by antigens such as food proteins. Here we create the ‘AllerScan’ programmable phage display system to characterize the binding specificities of anti-allergen IgG and IgE antibodies in serum against thousands of allergenic proteins from hundreds of organisms at peptide resolution. Using AllerScan, we identify robust anti-wheat IgE reactivities in wheat allergic individuals but not in wheat-sensitized individuals. Meanwhile, a key wheat epitope in alpha purothionin elicits dominant IgE responses among allergic patients, and frequent IgG responses among sensitized and non-allergic patients. A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial shows that alpha purothionin reactivity, among others, is strongly modulated by oral immunotherapy in tolerized individuals. AllerScan may thus serve as a high-throughput platform for unbiased analysis of anti-allergen antibody specificities.
A diverse array of antigens can trigger allergic reactions. Here the authors present the ‘AllerScan’ programmable phage display library, which is an efficient and unbiased approach for profiling anti-allergen antibody reactivities at cohort scale, with which a key wheat epitope is found to distinguish between wheat allergy and tolerance.
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