Báo cáo khoa học: Lep d 2 polymorphisms in wild and cultured Lepidoglyphus destructor mites

We have previously cloned, expressedand characterized two variants of the major allergen Lep d 2 from culturedLepi-doglyphus destructor mites. These variants, Lep d 2.0101 and Lep d 2.0201, differ at 13 amino acid positions. In this study we investigated Lep d 2 sequence diversity between wild and cultured mites. PCR, Southern blot and DNA sequence analysis revealed the presence of two different Lep d 2 genes, one with and one without an intron.