Acanthamoeba profilin elicits allergic airway inflammation in mice.

Background: In previous studies, we suggested that Acanthamoeba is a new aero-allergen and that patients who showed positive results for the skin-prick test response to Acanthamoeba cross-reacted with several pollen allergens. Additionally, patients with common antibodies reacted to the 13-15 kDa Acanthamoeba unknown allergen.

Objective: We examined whether profilin of Acanthamoeba is a human airway allergic agent because of its molecular weight.