PMID- 21918999 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150626 LR - 20141103 IS - 1097-0010 (Electronic) IS - 0022-5142 (Linking) VI - 92 IP - 3 DP - 2012 Feb TI - Extraction and mass spectrometry identification of a major peach allergen Pru p 1. PG - 570-6 LID - 10.1002/jsfa.4609 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: Peach allergy can be caused by the allergen Pru p 1. This occurs by cross-reactivity with the homologous birch pollen allergen Bet v 1. However, the direct identification of Pru p 1 as an immunoglobulin E (IgE)-binding protein extracted from peach fruit has never been reported. RESULTS: Phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) and phenol extractions were applied to solubilise the proteins from peach peel and pulp, and IgE immunoblotting with sera of individual peach-allergic patients was used to detect the potential allergens. Most of the patients showed binding to an 18 kDa band in IgE immunoblotting performed with the phenolic extracts of peach peel and pulp, but not when the PBS extracts were used. Mass spectrometry of the 18 kDa spot excised from a two-dimensional electrophoretic gel showed this protein to correspond to the peach allergen Pru p 1. CONCLUSION: Phenol extraction was necessary to detect by IgE immunoblotting a major peach allergen, which showed very low extractability with PBS, indicating the appropriateness of adopting different extraction procedures to identify plant allergens. The 18 kDa peach protein was definitively identified as the Bet v 1-homologous peach allergen Pru p 1. CI - Copyright (c) 2011 Society of Chemical Industry. FAU - Pasini, Gabriella AU - Pasini G AD - Dipartimento Biotecnologie Agrarie, Universita Padova, Viale dell'Universita 16, I-35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy. FAU - Curioni, Andrea AU - Curioni A FAU - Vegro, Mara AU - Vegro M FAU - Pagani, Mauro AU - Pagani M FAU - Masi, Antonio AU - Masi A FAU - Schievano, Elisabetta AU - Schievano E FAU - Antico, Andrea AU - Antico A LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20110914 PL - England TA - J Sci Food Agric JT - Journal of the science of food and agriculture JID - 0376334 RN - 0 (Antigens, Plant) RN - 0 (Plant Proteins) RN - 0 (Pru p 1 allergen) RN - 0 (Solvents) RN - 339NCG44TV (Phenol) RN - 37341-29-0 (Immunoglobulin E) SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Antibody Specificity MH - Antigens, Plant/adverse effects/*analysis/chemistry/isolation & purification MH - Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid MH - Female MH - Food Hypersensitivity/blood/complications/etiology/*immunology MH - Fruit/adverse effects/*chemistry MH - Humans MH - Immunoglobulin E/analysis/metabolism MH - Italy MH - Male MH - Middle Aged MH - Molecular Weight MH - Phenol/chemistry MH - Plant Proteins/adverse effects/*analysis/chemistry/isolation & purification MH - Prunus/adverse effects/*chemistry MH - Rhinitis, Allergic, Seasonal/blood/complications/etiology/*immunology MH - Solvents/chemistry MH - Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization MH - Surface Properties MH - Tandem Mass Spectrometry OTO - NOTNLM OT - Pru p 1 OT - Pru p 3 OT - electrophoresis OT - mass spectrometry OT - peach allergy EDAT- 2011/09/16 06:00 MHDA- 2015/06/27 06:00 CRDT- 2011/09/16 06:00 PHST- 2010/10/04 00:00 [received] PHST- 2011/07/19 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2011/07/19 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2011/09/16 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/09/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/06/27 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1002/jsfa.4609 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Sci Food Agric. 2012 Feb;92(3):570-6. doi: 10.1002/jsfa.4609. Epub 2011 Sep 14.