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Tri a Bd 27K, a major wheat allergen, is a glycoprotein. Tri a Bd 27K was found to occur in multiple forms by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting with a monoclonal antibody against the allergen. Furthermore, it was found that only Tri a Bd 27K components, which have N-linked glycan moieties with fucose residues, bound to IgE antibodies in the sera of wheat-sensitive patients.

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We produced a monoclonal antibody (mAb) as a probe for detection of Tri a Bd 27K, a major wheat allergen. The mAb recognized the allergen purified from wheat flour, and the epitope on the allergen to the mAb was determined to be amino acid sequence (154)VPWVVVDGKPL(164) of Tri a Bd 27K. Of the amino acid residues on the epitope, the amino acid residues responsible for the binding to the mAb were found to be W156, D160, G161, and P163.