The immunomodulatory effect of plant lectins: a review with emphasis on ArtinM properties

MA Souza, FC Carvalho, LP Ruas… - Glycoconjugate …, 2013 - Springer
Advances in the glycobiology and immunology fields have provided many insights into the
role of carbohydrate-protein interactions in the immune system. We aim to present a …

Vibrio cholerae cytolysin recognizes the heptasaccharide core of complex N-glycans with nanomolar affinity

S Levan, S De, R Olson - Journal of molecular biology, 2013 - Elsevier
Pathogens selectively target host cells using adhesion molecules and secreted virulence
factors that may utilize protein, lipid, or carbohydrate ligands on the cell surface. The human …

Generation of ligand specificity and modes of oligomerization in β-prism I fold lectins

T Chandran, A Sharma, M Vijayan - Advances in protein chemistry and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract β-Prism I fold lectins constitute one of the five widely occurring structural classes of
plant lectins. Each single domain subunit is made up of three Greek key motifs arranged in a …

The sequence and structure of snake gourd (Trichosanthes anguina) seed lectin, a three-chain nontoxic homologue of type II RIPs

A Sharma, G Pohlentz, KB Bobbili… - … Section D: Biological …, 2013 - journals.iucr.org
The sequence and structure of snake gourd seed lectin (SGSL), a nontoxic homologue of
type II ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs), have been determined by mass spectrometry …

Identification of mycobacterial lectins from genomic data

KV Abhinav, A Sharma… - … : Structure, Function, and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Sixty‐four sequences containing lectin domains with homologs of known three‐dimensional
structure were identified through a search of mycobacterial genomes. They appear to belong …

Elucidation of carbohydrate molecular interaction mechanism of recombinant and native ArtinM

D Giménez-Romero, PR Bueno… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) technique has been applied for monitoring the
biorecognition of ArtinM lectins at low horseradish peroxidase glycoprotein (HRP) …