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Caseins new official WHO-IUIS nomenclature

Posted by AdrianoMari on 20 Oct 2012 at 17:03 GMT

Cow’s milk allergenic protein nomenclature
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0040945#pone-0040945-t001

WHO-IUIS subcommittee for allergen nomenclature recently gave names to isolated caseins.
alphaS1-CAS: Bos d 9
alphaS2-CAS: Bos d 10
beta-CAS: Bos d 11
kappa-CAS: Bos d 12
Allergome names have been changed accordingly whereas Allergome already assigned codes did not change.

Competing interests declared: AM is the Allergome creator and administrator.