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The Importance of Correct Protein Concentration for Kinetics and Affinity Determination in Structure-function Analysis
Published on: March 17, 2010
Bioanalytical characterization of proteins
1Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany. lottspei@biochem.mpg.de
Abstract:
Allergens from the view of a protein chemist are quite normal proteins, not to distinguish from non allergenic proteins. The first task is therefore to recognize and identify the proteins responsible for the allergenic reaction. This is usually only possible if the allergenic structure is conserved during the purification procedures. For a detailed analysis of the allergenic protein modern protein chemical methods for characterization, identification, determination of posttranslational modifications and epitope characterization have to be applied. Such techniques are briefly described in this article.

