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 …

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 …

Background Pathogen perception by plants is mediated by plasma membrane-localized
immune receptors that have varied extracellular domains. Lectin receptor kinases (LecRKs) …

A re-investigation of the occurrence and taxonomic distribution of proteins built up of
protomers consisting of two tandem arrayed domains equivalent to the GNA [Galanthus …

The 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase (HMGR) catalyzes the conversion of HMG-
CoA to mevalonate, which is the first committed step in the pathway for isoprenoid …

Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins with wide array of functions including plant
defense against pathogens and insect pests. In the present study, a putative mannose …

Arguably, bacteriocins deployed in warfare among related bacteria are among the most
diverse proteinacous compounds with respect to structure and mode of action. Identification …

Using RNA extracted from Zingiber officinale rhizomes and primers designed according to
the conservative regions of monocot mannose-binding lectins, the full-length cDNA of Z …

A lectin different from the previously described mannose-binding agglutinins has been
isolated from the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha. Biochemical characterization of the …

Pinellia pedatisecta agglutinin (PPA) is a very basic protein that accumulates in the tuber of
P. pedatisecta. PPA is a hetero-tetramer protein of 40 kDa, composed of two polypeptide …