Allergy to bovine β‐lactoglobulin: specificity of human IgE to tryptic peptides

Bovine β‐lactoglobulin (Blg) is a major cow's milk allergen. It is the main whey protein, without any counterpart in human milk. Blg chemical hydrolysates appeared to retain most of the immunoreactivity of the native protein. Allergenicity of Blg has already been shown to be associated with the four peptides derived from cyanogen bromide cleavage of Blg.

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