Results 281 to 290 of about 18,810 (305)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.
Review: The multiple roles of plant lectins
Plant Science, 2021For decades, the biological roles of plant lectins remained obscure and subject to speculation. With the advent of technological and scientific progress, researchers have compiled a vast amount of information regarding the structure, biological activities and functionality of hundreds of plant lectins.
Tibo De Coninck, Els J.M. Van Damme
openaire +2 more sources
Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 1997
Among the crystal structures of lectins determined recently, three--snowdrop lectin, jacalin and amaranthin--represent new lectin families. Their polypeptide folds share remarkably similar features and consist exclusively of beta structure. Autonomously folded beta-sheet subdomains, inter-related by a pseudothreefold symmetry, assemble to form beta ...
openaire +2 more sources
Among the crystal structures of lectins determined recently, three--snowdrop lectin, jacalin and amaranthin--represent new lectin families. Their polypeptide folds share remarkably similar features and consist exclusively of beta structure. Autonomously folded beta-sheet subdomains, inter-related by a pseudothreefold symmetry, assemble to form beta ...
openaire +2 more sources
Recombinant Plant Lectins and Their Mutants
2003Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on recombinant plant lectins, especially those that have been investigated by mutagenesis. Cloning and expression of plant lectins have developed into powerful tools in aiding investigations of the structure–function relationships in their lectins.
Nathan Sharon, Hansjörg Streicher
openaire +3 more sources
1992
This volume surveys the chemistry, biochemistry, biosynthesis, metabolism and pharmacological properties of lectins. Lectins, which are most commonly found in plants, are widespread natural products with striking biological activities. Their specific ability to recognise and bind to simple or complex saccharides facilitates their role as effective ...
openaire +2 more sources
This volume surveys the chemistry, biochemistry, biosynthesis, metabolism and pharmacological properties of lectins. Lectins, which are most commonly found in plants, are widespread natural products with striking biological activities. Their specific ability to recognise and bind to simple or complex saccharides facilitates their role as effective ...
openaire +2 more sources
Plant Lectin as defense proteins
Biotech Today : An International Journal of Biological Sciences, 2015Plant lectins are a very heterogeneous group of protein that all share one important biological property: they can recognize and bind reversibly to specific carbohydrate structures. They are one of the most important secondary metabolites in plants which are used as a defense tool against pathogens which attack plants.
Nitasha Thakur, Neelam Sharma
openaire +2 more sources
Lectin Receptor Kinases in Plants
Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 2002Referee: Dr. Philip Becraft, Zoology and Genetics/Agronomy Depts., 2116 Molecular Building, lowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 Forty-two lectin receptor kinase (lecRK)-related sequences and nine related soluble legume lectin sequences were identified in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome.
Annick Barre +3 more
openaire +2 more sources
1981
The term lectin [Latin, legere — to pick out, choose] was coined by W. C. Boyd1 in order to call attention to a group of plant seed proteins which could distinguish among human blood groups. Boyd had discovered that extracts of the lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus) specifically agglutinated type A erythrocytes (Fig. 1).
openaire +2 more sources
The term lectin [Latin, legere — to pick out, choose] was coined by W. C. Boyd1 in order to call attention to a group of plant seed proteins which could distinguish among human blood groups. Boyd had discovered that extracts of the lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus) specifically agglutinated type A erythrocytes (Fig. 1).
openaire +2 more sources
Plant Lectins (Phytohemagglutinins)
1976It was already recognized at the end of the last century that proteins in extracts of certain plants are able to agglutinate red blood cells. For a long time this potency has been regarded as a curiosity only. Retrospectively however, it can be said that studies with the respective proteins were landmarks in the elucitation of the basic mechanisms of ...
openaire +2 more sources
History of Plant Lectin Research
2014Numerous plant species are known to express one or more lectins or proteins containing a lectin domain, enabling these proteins to select and bind specific carbohydrate structures. The group of plant lectins is quite heterogeneous since lectins differ in their molecular structure, specificity for certain carbohydrate structures, and biological ...
openaire +2 more sources
1993
Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins of nonimmune origin which occur throughout the biosphere (Goldstein and Poretz 1986). Their most obvious property, hemagglutination, has been known for more than a century (Franz 1988), whereas the art of purifying lectins is much younger.
openaire +2 more sources
Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins of nonimmune origin which occur throughout the biosphere (Goldstein and Poretz 1986). Their most obvious property, hemagglutination, has been known for more than a century (Franz 1988), whereas the art of purifying lectins is much younger.
openaire +2 more sources