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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.
Tzi Bun Ng +2 more
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Lectins with Potential for Anti-Cancer Therapy
Molecules, 2015 This article reviews lectins of animal and plant origin that induce apoptosis and autophagy of cancer cells and hence possess the potential of being developed into anticancer drugs. Apoptosis-inducing lectins encompass galectins, C-type lectins, annexins,
Tzi Bun Ng, Tammy Yau, Xiuli Dan
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Molecules, 2014 Mushrooms are famous for their nutritional and medicinal values and also for the diversity of bioactive compounds they contain including lectins. The present review is an attempt to summarize and discuss data available on molecular weights, structures ...
Senjam Sunil Singh +7 more
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Effect of Treatment with Plant Lectins on Postharvest Strawberry Fruit-Rot [PDF]
Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 2021 Eight lectins, four of which were used in pure forms, i.e. lectins of white bean seeds, red bean (Adzuki) seeds, pea seeds and lentil seeds. The other four were used in crude forms for the first time, i.e.
M. Soliman, Y. Arab, H. Soliman
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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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, 2022 I-type lectins are defined as glycan-binding proteins (excluding antibodies and T-cell receptors) in which the binding domain is homologous to the large and varied immunoglobulin superfamily (IgSF) of proteins.
Angata, Takashi +3 more
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