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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Characterization of lectins from wheat seedlings infected with Fusarium graminearum and treated by jasmonic acid [PDF]
The Ukrainian Biochemical Journal, 2023 Fusarium head blight is one of the most serious diseases of wheat caused by a range of Fusarium fungi, which infects the heads of the crop, reducing grain yield.
O. О. Molodchenkova +3 more
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Foods, 2021 Lectins are ubiquitous proteins characterized through their ability to bind different types of carbohydrates. It is well known that active lectins from insufficiently prepared legumes can cause adverse human health effects.
Anežka Adamcová +2 more
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