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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2020 Aug 7;9(1):119–129. doi: 10.1016/j.jaip.2020.07.044

Table1:

Summary of the main findings of the studies included in this review except for the genomic studies, which we have reviewed in a complementary article11.

Microbiome/gut metabolomics Transcriptomics Epigenomics (methylomics) Multi-omics


Food allergy/sensitization
Acute response to peanut
Differential DNA methylation in FA
Transcriptomics/metabolomics response to profilin
Lachnospiraceae ↑28
Streptococcaceae ↑28 Ruminococcaceae ↑28
Citrobacter ↓27
Oscillospira ↓27
Lactococcus ↓27
Haemophilus ↓27
Dialister ↓27
Clostridium↓27
Leuconostoc ↓28
De novo sphingolipid synthesis ↓30
Acute-phase inflammatory response ↑42
Positive regulation of NK cell chemotaxis ↑42
Key drivers: LTB4R, PADI4, IL1R2, PP1R3D, KLHL2, ECHDC342
Macrophages ↑42
Neutrophils ↑42
CD4+ Tcells (naïve) ↓42
MAPK signalling pathway genes53
Butirosin and neomycin biosynthesis54
Starch & sucrose metabolism54
Fructose & mannose metabolism54
Th1-Th2 balance genes54
Platelet function genes ↓65
Protein synthesis genes ↓65
Histone modification genes ↓65
Fatty acid metabolism genes ↓65
Carbohydrates, pyruvate ↓65
Lactate ↑65
Carnitine ↓ (with severity)65

Allergy resolution/tolerance development

IgE clonal response in peanut allergy
Th2 cytokine methylation ↑55
Th1 cytokine methylation ↓55
FOXP3 methylation ↓56,57
Convergence of IgE gene rearrangements43
IgEs cross-reactivity for Ara h2 – Ara h343

Transcriptomics/epigenomics TCR activation in FA
E2F/MYC TF network genes ↓66
Diff methylation metabolic genes66
Diff methylation inflammatory genes66

Diff methylation TCR cascade genes66

Allergy resolution

Firmicutes ↑25
Clostridia ↑25
Fatty acid metabolism 25

T cell clonal expansion signature

Biomarkers of FA
CD154, CD69, TNFRSA, GATA3 ↑44
CCR7, LEF1, SELL ↓44
Th2 signature enrichment44
96 CpG signature: 79.2% accuracy66

FA and biological age
DNA methylation age ↑62
DNA meth. age acceleration ↑62

Transcriptomics/epigenomics of reaction severity

Therapeutic potential

Reactive vs hyporeactive T cell response
Clostridiales (several genera)33
Bacteroidales (several genera)33
Subdoligranulum variabile33
Macrophages ↑45
Th2 and Th17 cell genes ↑45
Treg and immune regulation genes ↓45
Neutrophil immunity involvement67
NFKBIA and ARG1 are hub genes67
PHACTR1/ZNF121 expression mediate CpG associations67