Hypoallergenic Variant of the Major Egg White Allergen Gal d 1 Produced by Disruption of Cysteine Bridges

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Funding Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the Poultry Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) (established and supported under the Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centres Program) and Deakin University's Molecular and Medical Research (MMR) Strategic Research Centre (SRC) for providing this study with the required research funding, the Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) for supplying animal tissues required for the study, and the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) at the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne for supplying egg-allergic patients' sera which was crucial for the immunological analysis. The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute is supported by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program. Author P.D. was supported by a Deakin University Post Graduate Research Scholarship and a Poultry CRC Top-Up PhD Scholarship.