For decades, the biological roles of plant lectins remained obscure and subject to
speculation. With the advent of technological and scientific progress, researchers have …

To date, a number of mannose-binding lectins have been isolated and characterized from
plants and fungi. These proteins are composed of different structural scaffold structures …

Plant lectins are being studied for over a century. Until a decade ago, most information was
obtained from biochemical, molecular, and structural studies of a reasonably high but still …

During the last decade it was unambiguously shown that plants synthesize minute amounts
of carbohydrate-binding proteins upon exposure to stress situations like drought, high salt …

Lectins hold great promise not only as reagents for diagnostics and drug discovery but also
as a novel class of biopharmaceutical products. In fact, new research directions in the last …

This paper describes the purification and characterization of a new N-acetyl-d-glucosamine-
specific lectin from Araucaria angustifolia (AaL) seeds (Araucariaceae) and its anti …

Betacoronaviruses, responsible for the “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome”(SARS) and
the “Middle East Respiratory Syndrome”(MERS), use the spikes protruding from the virion …

Two novel lectins were purified from rhizomes of two sweet flag species, namely Acorus
calamus (Linn.) and Acorus gramineus (Solandin Ait.) by affinity chromatography on …

A novel lectin was isolated from the seeds of Chenopodium quinoa. To achieve this end, the
crude extract from the quinoa was submitted to two purification steps, Sephadex G50 and …

A monomeric mannose/glucose-binding lectin, with a molecular mass of 29.5 kDa and an N-
terminal sequence GQRELKL showing resemblance to that of the lectin-like oxidized low …