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SUBMITTER: Tundo S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6313882 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tundo Silvio S Lupi Roberta R Lafond Mickael M Giardina Thierry T Larré Colette C Denery-Papini Sandra S Morisset Martine M Kalunke Raviraj R Sestili Francesco F Masci Stefania S
Plants (Basel, Switzerland) 20181116 4
Although wheat is a staple food for most of the human population, some of its components trigger adverse reactions. Among wheat components, the alpha-amylase/trypsin inhibitors (ATI) are important triggers of several allergies and activators of innate immunity. ATI are a group of exogenous protease inhibitors and include several polypeptides. The three ATI polypeptides named CM3, CM16 and 0.28 are considered major allergens, and might also play a role in other common wheat-related pathologies, s ...[more]