Plant Lectins
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Subject Areas on Research
- A comparison of the fine saccharide-binding specificity of Dioclea grandiflora lectin and concanavalin A.
- Activity of and effect of subcutaneous treatment with the broad-spectrum antiviral lectin griffithsin in two laboratory rodent models.
- Appearance of multiple benign paraproteins during early engraftment of soy lectin T cell-depleted haploidentical bone marrow cells in severe combined immunodeficiency.
- Calorimetric analysis of the binding of lectins with overlapping carbohydrate-binding ligand specificities.
- Depression of lymphocyte transformation and exacerbation of Behcet's syndrome by ingestion of english walnuts.
- Engineering a therapeutic lectin by uncoupling mitogenicity from antiviral activity.
- Function of microglia in organotypic slice cultures.
- Lectin as a marker for staining and purification of embryonic pancreatic epithelium.
- Lectin staining of cultured CNS microglia.
- Localization of cell wall polysaccharides in nonarticulated laticifers of Asclepias speciosa Torr.
- Localization of cortical granule constituents before and after exocytosis in the hamster egg.
- Membrane receptors as general markers for plasma membrane isolation procedures. The use of 125-I-labeled wheat germ agglutinin, insulin, and cholera toxin.
- Molecular mapping of functional domains of the leukocyte receptor for endothelium, LAM-1.
- Perinatal dietary exposure to soy lecithin: altered sensitivity to central cholinergic stimulation.
- Preneoplastic and neoplastic lesions of rat hereditary renal cell tumors express markers of proximal and distal nephron.
- Reactivity of avian RNA tumor viruses with lectins.
- Scaleable manufacture of HIV-1 entry inhibitor griffithsin and validation of its safety and efficacy as a topical microbicide component.
- Specificity of C-glycoside complexation by mannose/glucose specific lectins.
- Studies of human bone marrow treated with soybean lectin and sheep erythrocytes: stepwise analysis of cell morphology, phenotype and function.
- The effects of a 10% soybean oil emulsion on lymphocyte transformation.
- The toxin-agglutinin fold. A new group of small protein structures organized around a four-disulfide core.
- Ulex europeus agglutinin I-reactive high molecular weight glycoproteins of adenocarcinoma of distal colon and rectum and their possible relationship with metastatic potential.
- Wisteria floribunda lectin is associated with specific cell types in the ventral cochlear nucleus of the gerbil, Meriones unguiculatus.