J Asthma Allergy Clin Immunol.  2000 Aug;20(4):627-632.

Egg white-specific IgG western blotting in children with atopic dermatitis

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Pediatrics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE
Specific IgE to food allergen is associated with atopic dermatitis, but it does not always show good clinical correlation. It has been suggested that IgG may be partly involved in allergen-induced reaction. This study was designed to investigate the clinical significance of specific IgG antibody to egg white (EW) in atopic dermatitis patients who showed improvement with egg elimination diet. METHOD: Eleven atopic dermatitis patients who responded to egg elimination diet were selected. They were classified into two groups; group I (n=5) with positive specific IgE to EW and group II (n=6) with normal levels of serum specific IgE. Two volunteers with no allergic diseases were enrolled in the control group. EW-specific IgG western blotting was performed with patient's serum and purified protein extracted from EW.
RESULTS
IgG western blotting to EW in group I showed bands at 51.8 kD in two patients and bands at 35 kD in the others. In group II, two showed bands at 51.8 kD, and diffuse bands at 35 kD~51.8 kD were found in four patients. There were no bands in the control group.
CONCLUSION
Regardless of the presence of specific IgE, specific IgG to EW was detected by western blotting in patients with egg-associated atopic dermatitis, suggesting that specific IgG may play a role in the pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis.

Keyword

IgG; western blotting; egg white; atopic dermatitis

MeSH Terms

Blotting, Western*
Child*
Dermatitis, Atopic*
Diet
Egg White
Humans
Immunoglobulin E
Immunoglobulin G*
Ovum*
Volunteers
Immunoglobulin E
Immunoglobulin G
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