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Taxus Cuspidata (Japanese Yew) Pollen Nasal Allergy Taxus cuspidata (Japanese yew) pollen nasal allergy a b Shiroh Maguchi *, Satoshi Fukuda a Department of Otolaryngology, Teine Keijinkai Hospital, 1-12 Maeda, Teine-ku, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan b Department of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, N15W7, Kita-ku, Sapporo 006-8555, Japan *Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (S. Maguchi) Abstract We have investigated the Taxus cuspidata pollinosis that has never been studied before. We applied immunoblotting method in order to detect specific IgE antibody against T. cuspidata using its pollen itself. Out of 18 patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis suffering mainly in April and May, 5 patients were sensitized with this pollen. Furthermore, we were able to diagnose one case as T. cuspidata pollinosis from the clinical and laboratory findings. While the birch pollen is the main causative pollen in the spring, T. cuspidata is one of the minor allergens causing pollinosis in our district. Keywords: pollinosis, Japanese yew, Taxus cuspidata, immunoblotting 1. Introduction spring from late April until early June, and many pollinosis patients see otolaryngologists It is well known that the birch (Betula during this time. platyphylla var. japonica) is a representative However, the number of nasal allergy cause of the tree pollinosis in Hokkaido, the patients begins to increase actually from early island of northern part of Japan, whereas April every year. As the pollen of birch is not Japanese ceder (Cryptomeria japonica) pollen is airborne early April, we assumed that the cause a major allergen causative of tree pollinosis in of the pollinosis at that time was alder pollen Japan [1]. This is the same as observed in that scatters at the beginning of April and that northern Europe [2]. The birch pollen keeps it had a cross reactivity with birch pollen [1]. scattering heavily every year in Hokkaido in -1- In 1998, in order to verify this hypothesis, we surveyed 68 nasal allergy patients whose nasal symptoms began early or in mid April, before the flowering of birch. The result was that the causative pollen was mainly alder pollen as expected, which was followed by elm and poplar pollen. However, approximately 20 % of those patients indicated no sensitization to birch, alder, poplar, elm, or mite allergens [unpublished data]. The airborne pollen grains for flowering in Sapporo in April are those of alders (Alnus), yews (Taxus), elms (Ulmus), poplars (Poplus) and birches (Betula). It is impossible to find the sensitivity against Taxus pollen in those five kinds of pollen, because there are neither commercially available tests to examine its specific IgE antibody nor diagnostic extracts Fig. 1. Taxus cuspidata (Japanese yew) in April. It has from that pollen. Therefore, we assumed the many small, solitary flowers. possibility that the patients who began nasal allergy symptoms before flowering of birch and Taxus cuspidata (Japanese yew) is a had no sensitivity to alders, elms, poplars or very slow-growing and long-lived tree. It birches were sensitized to Taxus pollen. reaches a height of 25 m and a diameter of 2 m. Then, we introduced a technique of It is widely distributed in Japan, Sakhalin, immunoblotting for the detection of Taxus Kuril, Korea and the north-eastern section of pollen-specific IgE using the pollen grain itself, China. Although it is widely distributed from and investigated whether the pollinosis due to the north to the south in Japan, it is abundant Taxus cuspidata is present or not in Sapporo. i n Hokkaido. The leaves are flat, 1.3 - 4 cm long, and pale on the underside. Narrow and sharply 2. Materials and methods pointed, they are arranged spirally around the twig. Small, solitary flowers appear in the 2.1. Taxus cuspidata (Japanese yew) spring (Fig. 1). The diameter of its pollen is 20-26µm and has a little square form (Fig. 2). -2- with immunoblotting technique according to the method of Takahashi et al [3], with some modification. The pollen of Taxus cuspidata were collected directly from flowering plants in April 1998, and kept at -4°C until use. Birch (Betula platyphylla var. japonica) pollen and alder (Alnus maximowiczii) pollen were used for positive control tests, which had been collected in 1991 and stored at -4°C. Respectively small amounts of the three kinds of pollen (birch, alder and yew) were placed 10 mm apart from each other on a Fig. 2. The pollen of Taxus cuspidata (Japanese yew). nitrocellulose membrane (5 x 50 mm, Bio-Rad (400x) Laboratory, CA, USA), which had been treated with 0.05M Glycine buffer pH 7.6 containing 2.2. Analysis of airborne pollen 20% methanol for 1h to transfer the pollen allergens. The membrane was then washed The Durham type pollen samplers are and blocked with TRIS-buffered saline pH 7.8 situated in Hokkaido University, which is (TBS) containing 4% bovine serum albumin for located in the center of Sapporo city. The 1h at 37°C. The membrane was rinsed three analysis of pollen samples was carried out times with TBS containing 0.25% Tween 20 microscopically throughout the pollen season (washing buffer) and treated with the patient’s in 1998 and 1999. The numbers of each pollen undiluted serum overnight at room type were counted within 4 cm2 on the slides temperature. The membrane was then after dying with Carberla solution (glycerin 5 ml, washed with a large volume of washing buffer ethanol 10 ml, 2 drops of saturated fuchsine and treated with biotinylated anti-human IgE and distilled water 15 ml). (Kirkegaard & Perry Lab., Inc., Gaithersburg, MD, USA) for 1h at 37°C. After vigorous 2.3. Measurement of IgE antibody washing with washing buffer, it was treated with biotinylated avidine alkaline phosphatase 2.3.1. Patient sera complex (Vectastain ABC-AP. AK-5000 of Vector Laboratories. Inc. Burlingame, CA, USA) Serum samples were obtained from 18 for 30 min at 37°C. Again, the membrane was patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis living in washed with a large volume of washing buffer, or around Sapporo City and suffering mainly in and then treated with BCIP/NBT April and May every year. The samples were (5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl stored at -80°C until use. phosphate/nitroblue tetrazolium), a phosphatase substrate kit (Kirkegaard & Perry 2.3.2. Measurement of IgE antibody by Lab., Inc., Gaithersburg, MD, USA) for 30 min immunoblotting at 37°C. The allergens were revealed as purple spots as a result of this procedure. The Since the diagnostic extracts for Taxus amount of specific IgE antibody was estimated cuspidata are not commercially available, we from the degree of the coloring in three steps, -, applied a method to measure its IgE antibody +, 2+, respectively. -3- Sweden) was performed according to the 2.2.3. Measurement of IgE antibody by CAP manufacture’s instructions to measure IgE radioallergosorbent test (CAP RAST) antibodies against the two kinds of pollen, birch and alder. A CAP RAST (Pharmacia, Uppsala, Fig. 3. Airborne pollen counts of Taxus and Betula in 1998 and 1999. Fig. 4. The membrane with immunoblotting of specific IgE against T. cuspidata, A. maximowiczii and B. platyphylla. 3. Results pollen, 3748/ 4 cm2 in 1998 and 1415 /4 cm2 in 1999. 3.1. Airborne Taxus pollen counts 3.2. Specific IgE antibody examined with Airborne Taxus pollen counts are immunoblotting and CAP RAST shown in Fig. 3. Japanese yew started its flowering early April in 1998 and middle in We have examined 18 sera of seasonal April in 1999, approximately 2 weeks before the nasal allergy patients. The membrane with beginning of birch flowering in both years. immunoblotting of specific IgE against Taxus The total counts of yews were 584 /4 cm2 in cuspidata, Alnus maximowiczii and Betula 1998 and 405 /4cm2 in 1999, and it is one platyphylla is shown in Fig. 4. The specific third to one sixth of the total counts of birch IgE antibody levels expressed by the degrees of -4- coloring and the titer obtained by CAP-RAST On the other hand, there was no are listed in Table 1. By immunoblotting correlation between IgE antibody against birch method, 5 out of 18 sera (27%) were found by CAP-RAST and the appearance of spots by positive for IgE antibody against Taxus immunoblotting with Taxus cuspidata as cuspidata, 16 out of 18 (89%) sera were positive shown in Fig. 6. against Alnus maximowiczii and 14 out of 18 Out of six patients (No. 1, 3, 4, 6, 14, sera (78%) were positive against Betula 15) whose nasal allergy symptoms began early platyphylla. or middle in April, before the flowering of birch, The relationship between IgE antibody only two patients had specific IgE antibody against birch by CAP-RAST and the appearance against Taxus cuspidata. Furthermore, 3 of spots by immunoblotting with Betula patients (No. 1, 3, 14) who were negative for platyphylla is shown in Fig. 5, where a good birch or alder by CAP-RAST were also negative correlation was observed. However, there for Taxus cuspidata by immunoblotting, but were 2 sera which were negative by CAP-RAST unexpectedly positive for Alnus maximowiczii or but positive by immunoblotting method (No. 1 Betula platyphylla by immunoblotting. and No. 16). Immunoblotting CAP RAST(KU/l) Taxus Alnus Betula Serum No. Alder Birch cuspidata maximowiczii platyphylla 1 - + + <0.34 <0.34 2 + + + N.D. 13.30 3 - + - <0.34 <0.34 4 + + + 7.93 8.46 5 - - - <0.34 <0.34 6 2+ 2+ 2+ N.D. 33.60 7 - 2+ 2+ 31.80 54.40 8 2+ + + N.D. 4.18 9 - + + N.D. 8.00 10 - + + 15.70 24.70 11 + + + N.D.
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