Abstract

NAVARRO, Elkin et al. The allergenic proteins: a novel target for the studies' development in functional proteomica. Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2008, vol.24, n.2, pp.303-318. ISSN 0120-5552.

The components involved in the pathogenesis of disorder allergic include the environment, the genetics and the immune competence. Continuously we are exposed to thousands of different proteins, but a single few of them induce an allergic immune response. The unique potential of an allergic protein to induce sensitization, only produce a response in susceptible individuals. Many of those allergic proteins share some homology in their sequence of amino acids, nevertheless, allergens have an ample rank of characteristic, no of which is unique for allergenic proteins. In spite of this, some characteristics are more common between allergens than in other proteins. It has been demonstrated that some proteins with enzymatic activity have a predisposition to induce allergic reactions and that its biological characteristics is associated with its catalytic activity. Those characteristic could be contribute directly to the allergenicity of this protein. In the present review we presented/displayed the main intrinsic characteristics of allergenic proteins associated with an allergic immune response, making emphasis in their Properties as activity cystein protease how and this biological faculty determining a factor in the development of the inflammatory cascade as an allergic immune response in susceptible individuals.

Keywords : House dust mite; allergens; cystein protease; inflammation; computational biology.

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