Gluten Sources
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From the perspective of gluten sensitivity there is no single definition of gluten that concisely defines all potentially pathogenic glutens. With wheat allergies, there can be a wide spectrum of species that may trigger allergies with similar proteins, the omega-gliadin proteins have similar proteins found in oats at high frequency, but omega-gliadin allergy is not a predictor of oat allergy or intolerance. A person can have an allergy to wheat, but not rye.
Glutelins have not been characterized over broad taxa. With idiopathic gluten sensitivity, the antibodies that correlate with disease are anti-gliadin antibodies. Whether these antibodies are pathogenic or are simply indicators of circulating gliadin is unknown. For gluten-sensitive enteropathy, gliadin and homologous proteins from rye and barley cause disease. T-cell epitopes implicated in disease have been found in glutinous protein genes in all species sequenced within the tribe Triticeae.
Also, since barley is distantly related to wheat, but carries pathogenic epitopes it can be assumed that all members of Triticeae should carry T-cell sites capable of sustaining disease (see also Genetics of Triticeae). While often not explicitly stated in some standards, pathogenic glutens found in wheat are also found in Spelt and Kamut (both types of wheat), Triticale (a trans-species Triticeae hybrid).
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