Allergens from rye pollen (Secale cereale). I. Study of protein release by rye pollen during a 19-hour extraction process. Allergen identification.

We have studied the proteins and allergens released by rye pollen in the course of a 19-h pollen incubation process. Nearly 40% of the total extracted proteins were collected during the first 5 min, and most of them had a molecular weight <28 kDa. Between 5 and 30 min, 15% of the proteins from total extract were released, showing in the SDS-PAGE analysis an increase in which components moved close to 30 kDa standard. From 30 min to 19 h several extracts were collected. Electrophoretical profile of components from these extracts reveals that bands moving below 28 kDa were practically absent and those of 28 and 23 kDa became very intense. At the end of the process there was a rise of 67 kDa proteins. Dot-immunobinding and immunoblotting techniques reveal that allergens leave the rye pollen, for the most part, after 5 min incubation and are proteins with 28 kDa, 33 kDa, 48 kDa and 67 kDa molecular weights.