Article: Lectin receptor kinases in plants

Article: The Tn antigen-specific lectin from ground ivy is an insecticidal protein with an unusual physiology
Plant Physiology;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......evolutionary related to the classical legume lectins. Screening of a population of...similarity with the classical legume lectins and exhibits a very similar overall...active ortholog of the classical legume lectins eventually solved the problem...

Article: Characterization of Four Lectin-Like Receptor Kinases Expressed in Roots of Medicago truncatula. Structure, Location, Regulation of Expression, and Potential Role in the Symbiosis with Sinorhizobium meliloti1
Plant Physiology;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......extracellular domain is related to legume lectins. The Arabidopsis genome contains...or human (Homo sapiens). The legume lectins are a class of proteins that are...related families of which the legume lectins comprise one such class (Loris...

Article: Interaction of Fusarium solani Lectin with Monosaccharides and Oligosaccharides: A Fluorometric Study
Photochemistry and Photobiology;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......fluorescence intensity of Fusarium solani lectin was quenched upon binding to mono- and...constants for several sugars and glycans. The lectin interacted very poorly with monosaccharides...studies revealed that the binding of the lectin with all the saccharides is enthalpically...

Article: A mannose-binding lectin from Sophora flavescens induces apoptosis in HeLa cells.(Report)
Phytomedicine: International Journal of Phytotherapy & Phytopharmacology;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Keywords: Sophora flavescens lectin; Anti-tumor; Apoptosis...activity Introduction Plant lectins constitute a heterogeneous...and molecular cloning of lectin genes enable subdivision of plant lectins in a limited number of...related proteins. Four major lectin families, namely, the ...

Article: Binding of T-Antigen Disaccharides to Artocarpus hirsuta Lectin and Jacalin are Energetically Different
Photochemistry and Photobiology;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......1-6Glc (mellibiose) to Artocarpus hirsuta lectin was studied using fluorescence spectroscopy...binding of the saccharides to the A. hirsuta lectin was not affected as strongly by temperature...were found to be positive in A. hirsuta lectin-disaccharide binding despite similar binding...

Article: Pseudomonas aeruginosa lectin PA-IIL as a powerful probe for human and bovine milk analysis
Journal of Dairy Science;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......commercial cow milk glycans detectable by the lectins PA-IL (galactose-binding) and PA-IIL (fucose...infant formulas, were examined using these two lectins. For purposes of comparison, the plant lectins Concanavalin A (Con A), which binds mannose...

Article: lectin
A Dictionary of Chemistry;      65 words ...lectin Any of a group of proteins, derived from plants, that can...surface of cells, causing the cells to clump together. Lectins can be used to identify mutant cells in cell cultures and...as they can cause the agglutination of red blood cells. Lectins are found in seeds of legumes and in other tissues, ...

Article: Retrocyclin is a lectin.
AIDS Weekly;  June 16, 2003 ;     402 words ......antiretroviral agent retrocyclin is a lectin. According to published research from...cysteine-rich antimicrobial peptides with lectin-like properties exist in plants, theta-defensi...an antiretroviral theta-defensin, is a lectin. J Immunol, 2003;170(9):4708-4716). Additional...

Article: The liverwort contains a lectin that is structurally and evolutionary related to the monocot mannose-binding lectins
Plant Physiology;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......evolution of the superfamily of monocot Man-binding lectins. Beside evolutionary considerations, the occurrence...physiological role of the whole family of monocot Man-binding lectins. Carbohydrate-binding proteins, also called lectins or agglutinins, are widespread among flowering plants...structural ...

Article: How a Plant Lectin Recognizes High Mannose Oligosaccharides1[C][OA]
Plant Physiology;  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Many principles have been discovered first for legume lectin family members and were later confirmed for other...carbohydrate-recognizing proteins (Loris, 2002). The legume lectin family covers the widest possible range of carbohydrate specificities among all known lectin families. ...

Article: Massachusetts Inventors Develop Lectin Complement Pathway Regulating Product
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 15, 2007 ;     345 words ......of Wellesley, Mass., have developed a lectin complement pathway regulating product...to methods and products for regulating lectin complement pathway associated complement...vitro and in vivo methods for inhibiting lectin complement pathway associated complement...

Article: Cell localization of lectin binding in Microciona prolifera sponge.
The Biological Bulletin;  October 1, 1997 ;     592 words ......previous studies have demonstrated general lectin staining and sulfate masking of sugars in...pellets; however, we were unable to assign lectin binding patterns to specific cell types. Lectin specificities on sponge branches may yield...

Article: Mannan-binding lectin activates C3 and the alternative complement pathway without involvement of C2.(Research article)(includes statistical tables)
Journal of Clinical Investigation;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Lectin pathway activation of C3 is known to involve target recognition by mannan-binding lectin (MBL) or ficolins and generation of classical pathway C3...complement deficiency states. Introduction Mannan-binding lectin (MBL; also referred to as mannose-binding lectin) is a...

Article: Association between mannose binding lectin polymorphisms and predisposition to bacterial meningitis
The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......F. Association between mannose binding lectin polymorphisms and predisposition to bacterial...any association between mannose binding lectin (MBL) gene variants and bacterial meningitis...in children. Key words: mannose binding lectin, bacterial meningitis, susceptibility...