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Concanavalin A-targeted mesoporous silica nanoparticles for infection treatment [PDF]
Acta Biomaterialia. 96, 547-556 (2019), 2021 The ability of bacteria to form biofilms hinders any conventional treatment against chronic infections and has serious socio-economic implications. In this sense, a nanocarrier capable of overcoming the barrier of the mucopolysaccharide matrix of the biofilm and releasing its loaded-antibiotic within would be desirable.
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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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Leguminosae Lectins as Biological Tools in Medical Research: a Review
Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2021 Lectins were discovered first in plants and later in other living things, and nowadays it is known that they are present in almost all many life forms.
Paula Perazzo de Souza Barbosa +3 more
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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.
Ouafae Akkouh +7 more
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Lectindb: a plant lectin database [PDF]
Glycobiology, 2006 Lectins, a class of carbohydrate-binding proteins, are now widely recognized to play a range of crucial roles in many cell-cell recognition events triggering several important cellular processes. They encompass different members that are diverse in their sequences, structures, binding site architectures, quaternary structures, carbohydrate affinities ...
Chandra, Nagasuma R +5 more
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APPLICATIONS OF PLANT LECTINS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS
Journal of microbiology, biotechnology and food sciences, 2022 Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins broadly used in various therapeutic and biomedical applications. The variable affinity of lectins towards variety of carbohydrates has raised attention for the biologist to explore functional aspects of lectins.
Sanjay Naik, Sanjit Kumar
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Plant efficiency: a sensitivity analysis of the capacity factor for fusion power plants with high recirculated power [PDF]
Nuclear Fusion Vol. 61, 046032 (2021), 2021 The plant efficiency of a nuclear fusion power plant is considered. During nominal operation, the plant efficiency is determined by the thermodynamic efficiency and the recirculated power fraction. However, on average the reactor operates below the nominal power, even when the long shutdown periods for large maintenance are left outside the averaging ...
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Cells, 2022 Pathogenic enveloped viruses are covered with a glycan shield that provides a dual function: the glycan structures contribute to virus protection as well as host cell recognition.
Annick Barre +6 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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Promiscuity of the Euonymus Carbohydrate-Binding Domain
Biomolecules, 2012 Plants synthesize small amounts of carbohydrate-binding proteins on exposure to stress. For example, on exposure to drought, high salt, wounding and by treatment with some plant hormones or by pathogen attack. In contrast to the ‘classical’ plant lectins
Els J.M. Van Damme, Elke Fouquaert
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