Type-I food allergies are hypersensitive reactions compromising the immune organs and epithelial barriers. To investigate the organ-specific proteomic alterations of the allergy responses, the spleen and intestine of mice sensitized with high (shrimp and clam) and weak (fish) allergenic tropomyosins were analyzed using sequential windowed acquisition of all theoretical fragment ion mass spectra (SWATH-MS)-based proteomics. The results showed that Th1 and Th2 tropomyosin-induced responses in the spleen are characterized by the unique upregulation of innate (cochlin) and adaptive (Ig κ chain V-III region PC 7175) immune regulators, respectively. In the intestine, tropomyosin allergy concurred with the downregulation of 35 differentiating proteins featuring the overall impairment of metabolic pathways, absorption processes and ammonium ion responses. These data provide new functional biomarkers of tropomyosin-induced immune responses as well as candidate targets for intervention.
Keywords: Biomarker; Intestine; Proteomics; Shellfish allergy; Spleen; Tropomyosin.
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