[Sca-cooks] Aspartame

[Avraham haRofeh]

> Any REAL biochemists on this list?  Anybody know how long a peptide has
> to be before it can conceivably be an allergen?

Well, I was, before I became an MD.... and the standard teaching is that a
peptide chain of fewer than 4 or 5 is too small to be a hapten.

Avraham

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