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IgE Reactivity of Potential Allergens from the Swimming Crab Portunus trituberculatus and the Research of ELISA Reagent for Detecting Crab Food Anaphylaxis

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Crustacean is one of the major allergic foods. It is of great significance to identify more crab allergens and research the detection methods for crab food anaphylaxis. In this study, IgE reactivity to three recombinant proteins from Portunus trituberculatus, including tropomyosin (rPtTM), myosin light chain (rPtMLC), and pancreatic lipase (rPtPL), were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The expressions of tropomyosin (TM) in various tissues of P. trituberculatus were detected by Western blot (WB). Furthermore, microplates were coated with rPtTM and the ELISA conditions were optimized. The cut-off value was determined by the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Among 51 crab-allergic sera, 21 (41.2%) showed positive IgE to rPtTM. Other 70 crab-allergic sera more frequently recognized rPtPL (9/70; 12.9%), followed by rPtMLC (1/70; 1.4%). WB results showed that TM was mainly expressed in the muscle, followed by the heart and a small amount in gills and the testis. The optimal results showed that the coating condition of rPtTM was 50 ng per well with coating for 3 h at 37°C. The optimal blocking condition was 1.2% BSA with blocking for 3 h at 37ºC, and the optimal dilution of the second antibody was 1:1500. The ROC curve showed that the ELISA reagent had high sensitivity (83.52%) and specificity (98.00%) when the cut-off value was 0.45. All results indicated that tropomyosin is the major allergen of P. trituberculatus, and myosin light chain and pancreatic lipase are the potential allergens. Additionally, the ELISA reagent developed with the rPtTM was feasible for laboratory detection of crab anaphylaxis.

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The authors would like to thank all the members of the Crustacean Study Laboratory for their technical advice and helpful discussions. This research was supported by Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. LY18H110003), and the General Scientific Research Project of Zhejiang Education Department (No. Y201940887).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, China

    Xueni Qiu, Changkao Mu, Ronghua Li, Yangfang Ye, Weiwei Song, Ce Shi, Lei Liu, Huan Wang & Chunlin Wang

  2. Collaborative Innovation Center for Zhejiang Marine High-Efficiency and Healthy Aquaculture, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, China

    Xueni Qiu, Changkao Mu, Ronghua Li, Yangfang Ye, Weiwei Song, Ce Shi, Lei Liu, Huan Wang & Chunlin Wang

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    Qiongyan Zhou, Xiaoxia Zhu, Wei Lin & Suling Xu

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Qiu, X., Zhou, Q., Zhu, X. et al. IgE Reactivity of Potential Allergens from the Swimming Crab Portunus trituberculatus and the Research of ELISA Reagent for Detecting Crab Food Anaphylaxis. J. Ocean Univ. China 21, 421–429 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11802-022-4859-8

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