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Can Plant Lectins Help to Elucidate Insect Lectin-Mediated Immune Response? [PDF]
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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Plant lectins: Handymen at the cell surface [PDF]
The Cell Surface, 2022 Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins and are involved in a multitude of biological functions. Lectins at the surface of plant cells often occur as lectin receptor-like kinases (LecRLK) anchored to the plasma membrane.
Tibo De Coninck, Els J.M. Van Damme
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Insecticidal Activity of Plant Lectins and Potential Application in Crop Protection [PDF]
Molecules, 2015 Lectins constitute a complex group of proteins found in different organisms. These proteins constitute an important field for research, as their structural diversity and affinity for several carbohydrates makes them suitable for numerous biological ...
Maria Lígia R. Macedo +2 more
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Antibacterial Activity of Plant Lectins: a Review [PDF]
Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2021 Lectins are proteins that form a heterogeneous group, capable of binding specifically and reversibly to carbohydrates. They occur in various types of organisms, having different functions, in plants they are present in almost all structures, however with
Nathália Regina Galvão Silva +1 more
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Targeting the Immune System with Plant Lectins to Combat Microbial Infections [PDF]
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2017 The arsenal of drugs available to treat infections caused by eukaryotic and prokaryotic microbes has been declining exponentially due to antimicrobial resistance phenomenon, leading to an urgent need to develop new therapeutic strategies.
Jannyson J. B. Jandú +6 more
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Plant lectins, chemical and biological aspects [PDF]
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1991 Lectins, carbohydrate-binding proteins of non-immune origin, that agglutinate cells or precipitate polysaccharides and glycoconjugates, are well distributed in nature, mainly in the Plant Kingdom.
Renato de Azevedo Moreira +3 more
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130 years of Plant Lectin Research [PDF]
Glycoconjugate Journal, 2020 Lectins are proteins with diverse molecular structures that share the ability to recognize and bind specifically and reversibly to carbohydrate structures without changing the carbohydrate moiety. The history of lectins started with the discovery of ricin about 130 years ago but since then our understanding of lectins has dramatically changed. Over the
Mariya Tsaneva, Els J. M. Van Damme
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Data on IL-17 production induced by plant lectins [PDF]
Data in Brief, 2016 We reported in article da Silva et al. (2016) [2] that ArtinM induces the IL-17 production through interaction with CD4+ T cells and stimulation of IL-23 and IL-1.
Thiago Aparecido da Silva +2 more
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Insights into Animal and Plant Lectins with Antimicrobial Activities [PDF]
Molecules, 2015 Lectins are multivalent proteins with the ability to recognize and bind diverse carbohydrate structures. The glyco -binding and diverse molecular structures observed in these protein classes make them a large and heterogeneous group with a wide range of ...
Renata de Oliveira Dias +3 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,
Xiuli Dan, Tzi Bun Ng
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