Lectins as Natural Antibiofilm Agents in the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance: A Review [PDF]
MoleculesBiofilms are complex microbial communities embedded in a self-produced extracellular polymeric matrix. These structures confer increased resistance/tolerance to antimicrobial agents and immune responses, posing a serious challenge in both clinical and ...
Thiago Henrique Napoleão +4 more
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Marine Drugs, 2022 Lectins are a unique group of nonimmune carbohydrate-binding proteins or glycoproteins that exhibit specific and reversible carbohydrate-binding activity in a non-catalytic manner.
Mirja Kaizer Ahmmed +16 more
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Cells, 2021 Betacoronaviruses, responsible for the “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome” (SARS) and the “Middle East Respiratory Syndrome” (MERS), use the spikes protruding from the virion envelope to attach and subsequently infect the host cells.
Annick Barre +7 more
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Can Plant Lectins Help to Elucidate Insect Lectin-Mediated Immune Response?
Insects, 2021 Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins that recognize and selectively bind to specific sugar structures. This group of proteins is widespread in plants, animals, and microorganisms, and exerts a broad range of functions.
Pengyu Chen +3 more
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Russulaceae FAMILY MUSHROOMS LECTINS: FUNCTION, PURIFICATION, STRUCTURAL FEATURES AND POSSIBILITIES OF PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS [PDF]
Biotechnologia Acta, 2019 The purpose of this paper was to analise the results of own author’s research and literature date of other authors that concerned lectins of Russulaceae family mushrooms, which, despite their widespread, are still poorly investigated. Most studies merely
Panchak L. V.
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Antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of Penicillium sp. lectins [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2019 Lectins are a diverse group of proteins of non-immune origin that interact specifically with glycans. Owing to their specificity, they can mediate various cellular and molecular recognition processes.
Singh Ram S., Walia Amandeep K.
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Characterization and antimicrobial activity of lectins purified from three Egyptian leguminous seeds
AMB Express, 2020 Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins that play vital roles in many biological processes. In this study, lectins from three Egyptian cultivars (fava bean, lentil, and pea) were isolated by precipitation with different concentrations of ammonium ...
Magda M. El-Araby +3 more
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Detection of inflammation- and neoplasia-associated alterations in human large intestine using plant/invertebrate lectins, galectin-1 and neoglycoproteins [PDF]
, 1998 Commonly, plant and invertebrate lectins are accepted glycohistochemical tools for the analysis of normal and altered structures of glycans in histology and pathology.
Bosbach, R. +3 more
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The distribution of lectins across the phylum Nematoda : a genome-wide search [PDF]
, 2017 Nematodes are a very diverse phylum that has adapted to nearly every ecosystem. They have developed specialized lifestyles, dividing the phylum into free-living, animal, and plant parasitic species. Their sheer abundance in numbers and presence in nearly
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Lectins with Anti-HIV Activity: A Review
Molecules, 2015 Lectins including flowering plant lectins, algal lectins, cyanobacterial lectins, actinomycete lectin, worm lectins, and the nonpeptidic lectin mimics pradimicins and benanomicins, exhibit anti-HIV activity.
Ouafae Akkouh +7 more
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