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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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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 +2 more
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Lectins: production and practical applications [PDF]
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2010 Lectins are proteins found in a diversity of organisms. They possess the ability to agglutinate erythrocytes with known carbohydrate specificity since they have at least one non-catalytic domain that binds reversibly to specific monosaccharides or ...
Sze Kwan Lam, Tzi Bun Ng, Ng Tzi Bun
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Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 1999 Lectins — carbohydrate-binding proteins involved in a variety of recognition processes exhibit considerable structural diversity. Three new lectin folds and further elaborations of known folds have been described recently. Large variability in quaternary
Chandra, Nagasuma, Vijayan, M
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Human Lectins, Their Carbohydrate Affinities and Where to Find Them
Biomolecules, 2021 Lectins are a class of proteins responsible for several biological roles such as cell-cell interactions, signaling pathways, and several innate immune responses against pathogens.
Claudia D Raposo
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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,
Xiuli Dan +2 more
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Targeting Yeast Pathogens with Lectins: A Narrative Review from Mechanistic Insights to the Need for Addressing Translational Challenges [PDF]
BiomedicinesDiseases associated with yeast pathogens have become an increasingly serious global health issue. The range of virulence factors and the development of mechanisms of resistance have posed a significant challenge in the fight against these types of ...
Gustavo Ramos Salles Ferreira +2 more
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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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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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