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SUBMITTER: Reithofer M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5535861 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Reithofer Manuel M Jahn-Schmid Beatrice B
International journal of molecular sciences 20170627 7
Globally, house dust mites (HDM) are one of the main sources of allergens causing Type I allergy, which has a high risk of progressing into a severe disabling disease manifestation such as allergic asthma. The strong protease activities of a number of these allergens are thought to be involved in several steps of the pathophysiology of this allergic disease. It has been a common notion that protease activity may be one of the properties that confers allergenicity to proteins. In this review we s ...[more]