Towards Defining Molecular Determinants Recognized by Adaptive Immunity in Allergic Disease: An Inventory of the Available Data

Table 1

Overview of allergy epitope data included in the IEDB.

Category	Total number
References	678
Epitopes (positive structures)	4,800
Negative structures	4,137
Antibody/B cell	3,194
Linear natural peptides	2,730
Linear analogs/no natural source	163
Discontinuous determinants	65
T cell	1,646
CD4^+/Class II	1,530
CD8^+/Class I	17
Unspecified	99
Unique allergens (peptidic/nonpeptidic)	550
Source species	88
Food allergy epitopes	2,322 (53%)
Airborne allergy epitopes	1,750 (40%)
Stinging insects epitopes	127 (3%)
Drug allergy epitopes	106 (~2%)
Contact allergy epitopes	82 (~2%)