Walnuts are potent inducers of food allergic symptoms. So far, five allergens were identified, among those, Jug r 2 belonging to the vicilin family. Based on the identification of an IgE-reactive clone from a cDNA library in 1999 (Teuber et al.), the sequence fragment of Jug r 2 was determined. Howe...
ORGANISM(S): Juglans regia (English walnut)
