... diagnosis and therapy, and an understand-ing of the structure of these allergens is essential to the improvement of diagnosis and the design of adequatetherapeutic treatment. We previously identified ... sequences. Identicalamino acids are shown as dots. The highly conserved and consensus amino acid residues involved in six Cys residues are indicated by aster-isks. The glycosylation site is ... Biosystems,Foster City, CA, USA). MALDI mass-spectroscopic analy-sis was performed on a Voyager DE-STR mass spectro-meter (PerSeptive Biosystems, Framingham, MA, USA).PCR-based cloning strategy...