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Allergic Antigen Detection Kits

Allergic diseases and symptoms arise from an active immune response to normally innocuous antigens, such as pollen, pet dander, or food. Specifically, food allergies and asthma are two common childhood inflammatory diseases that in recent years, have started affecting more individuals.  

To analyze the pathogenic role of ovalbumin (OVA), gliadin, house dust mite (HDM) allergen (Der p 10), and peanut Ara h6 in human allergies or animal models of allergies, Chondrex, Inc. provides OVA (Cat # 6032), Gliadin (Cat # 6035), HDM (Der p 10) (Cat # 6031), and peant Ara h6 (Cat # 6042) Detection ELISA Kits. Furthermore, anti-OVA, anti-Gliadin, anti-HDM, and anti-Ara h6 monoclonal antibodies and antibody ELISA kits are also available. Please refer to the sections below and their respective product pages for more information.

For more information, please contact Chondrex, Inc. at support@chondrex.com.

Allergic Antigen Detection Assay Kits

Product Catalog # Price (USD)
Gliadin Detection Assay Kit 6035 389.00
House Dust Mite (HDM) Der p 10 Detection Kit 6031 389.00
House Dust Mite (HDM) Der p1 Detection Kit 6044 389.00
Ovalbumin (OVA) Detection Assay Kit 6032 389.00
Peanut Ara h2 Detection Assay Kit 6043 389.00
Peanut Ara h6 Detection Assay Kit 6042 389.00

Gliadin

A food allergy is an immune response to foods or food ingredients that most other people can tolerate without issue. Wheat is the most widely consumed food grain in the world.  One of wheat proteins, gliadins are classified by their differing primary structures into α-, β-, γ-, and ω- gliadins which range in molecular weight from 28 – 55 kDa and play a critical role in activating both the innate and adaptive immune response, which results in the immune-mediated damage of the intestine such as high intestinal permeability and lamina propria inflammatory cell infiltration. Therefore, gliadins can trigger Celiac disease (CD) which is an autoimmune disorder in genetically susceptible individuals. Mouse CD models have widely been used to study the pathogenesis of gliadin and its immune responses (1–4). For more details about the gliadin-induced CD mouse models, please refer to Chondrex, Inc.'s Mouse Anti-Gliadin Antibody Assay Kits page.

HDM

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects 300 million people of all ages worldwide (5. It is caused by exposure to allergens such as dust mites, pet dander, pollen, or mold, and characterized by reversible airway obstruction and bronchospasm. House dust mite (HDM) allergens are the most important indoor allergens in humans (6). Approximately 10% of asthma patients sensitized to HDM demonstrate IgE antibodies to Der p10, a 32 kDa protein of group 10 allergen (tropomyosins) from dust mite, Dermatophagoides pteronyssius. Tropomyosins of a similar structure are found in invertebrates such as crustaceans (shrimp, lobster, crawfish, and crab), arachnids (house dust mites), insects (cockroaches), and mollusks. Tropomyosin is a heat-stable protein and sensitization may lead to severe reactions to the allergenic source. Therefore, the Der p10 antigen may play a role in the cross-induction of allergic reactions to many allergens (7). For more details about mouse HDM-induced asthma models, please refer to Chondrex, Inc.'s HDM Induced Asthma Model page.

OVA

Chicken egg allergy is the second most common food allergy (the first being bovine milk allergy) and is observed in 0.5 to 2.5% of young children. Egg allergy is an immunological reaction induced by egg proteins and is defined as an allergen-specific IgE antibody-mediated allergic response, also known as a type I food allergy. Among egg proteins, ovalbumin (OVA) is one of the identified allergenic proteins (8). OVA, a 42.7 kDa glycoprotein, consists of three different subclasses, A1, A2 and A3, which contain two, one and no phosphate groups per molecule, respectively.  OVA is a widely used antigen for inducing allergic reactions in experimental animals (5,9,10).  For more details about mouse OVA-induced allergy models, please refer to Chondrex, Inc.'s OVA Allergy Model page

Peanut Ara h6

Immediate hypersensitivity reactions to peanuts, an IgE-mediated food allergy, have been a major public health concern for many years, particularly in westernized countries where peanut allergies can persist into adulthood. For allergic patients, avoidance currently remains the only viable option (11). Eleven potentially important peanut allergens have been identified. Ara h1, Ara h2, Ara h3, and Ara h6 have been designated the major peanut allergens. Ara h2 and Ara h6, two highly related 2S albumins belonging to seed storage proteins, especially contribute to the development of allergic reactions (12). Ara h2 contains ten independent IgE-binding linear epitopes. Two isoforms, Ara h 2.01 and Ara h 2.02, were identified respectively as a 17 and 19-kDa doublet on SDS-PAGE. The larger isoform containing twelve extra amino acids including a duplication of a strong IgE-binding sequence, DPYSPS, can bind more IgE antibodies (13, 14). Ara h6 can be a useful analytical target for validating peanut-free foods. This application is not limited to only food testing either, as interestingly, serum Ara h6 levels correlate with peanut allergy tolerance in patients and can be a useful marker of tolerance levels in therapeutic studies (15).  For more details about mouse peanut extract-induced allergic models, please refer to Chondrex, Inc.'s Mouse Anti-Crude Peanuts Extract Antibody ELISA Kits page.

 

References

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  13. X. Chen, Q. Wang, R. El-Mezayen, Y. Zhuang, S. C. Dreskin, Ara h 2 and Ara h 6 Have Similar Allergenic Activity and Are Substantially Redundant. Int. Arch. Allergy Immunol. 160, 251–258 (2013). 
  14. M. Suhr, D. Wicklein, U. Lepp, W.-M. Becker, Isolation and characterization of natural Ara h 6: evidence for a further peanut allergen with putative clinical relevance based on resistance to pepsin digestion and heat. Mol. Nutr. Food Res. 48, 390–399 (2004). 
  15. H. Bernard, P. J. Turner, S. Ah-Leung, M. Ruiz-Garcia, E. N. Clare Mills, K. Adel-Patient, Circulating Ara h 6 as a marker of peanut protein absorption in tolerant and allergic humans following ingestion of peanut-containing foods. Clin. Exp. Allergy. 50, 1093–1102 (2020).