Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

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

  • Daniel R. Monaco,
  • Brandon M. Sie,
  • Thomas R. Nirschl,
  • Audrey C. Knight,
  • Hugh A. Sampson,
  • Anna Nowak-Wegrzyn,
  • Robert A. Wood,
  • Robert G. Hamilton,
  • Pamela A. Frischmeyer-Guerrerio,
  • H. Benjamin Larman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20622-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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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.