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. 
  • A new simplified procedure for C1 inhibitor purification. A novel use for jacalin-agarose. 
  • 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. 
  • Identification of peanut agglutinin and soybean trypsin inhibitor as minor legume allergens. 
  • 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. 
  • Microglioma, a histiocytic neoplasm of the central nervous system. 
  • 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. 
  • Plasmodium berghei and Plasmodium knowlesi: serum binding to sporozoites. 
  • 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. 
  • Reversal of P-glycoprotein expressed in Escherichia coli leaky mutant by ascorbic acid. 
  • 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.