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The Potential of Lectins and Their Recognized Glycoconjugates in the Human Body
AbstractThe modern concepts of lectins and glycoconjugates binding to them, the features and patterns of their interaction, and the protective role...
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A Comprehensive Review on Euphorbiaceae lectins: Structural and Biological Perspectives
AbstractEuphorbiaceae, also known as the spurge family, is a large group of flowering plants. Despite being tropical natives, they are now...
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Fucose-binding lectins: purification, characterization and potential biomedical applications
The property of lectins to specifically recognize and bind carbohydrates makes them an excellent candidate in biomedical research. Among them are...
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Harnessing the power of mollusc lectins as immuno-protective biomolecules
The rapid advancement of molecular research on macromolecules has contributed to the discovery of ‘Lectin’, a carbohydrate-binding protein which...
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Glycosylated SARs Cov 2 interaction with plant lectins
Lectins are non-immune carbohydrate-binding proteins/glycoproteins that are found everywhere in nature, from bacteria to human cells. They have also...
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Mannose-specific plant and microbial lectins as antiviral agents: A review
Lectins are non-immunological carbohydrate-binding proteins classified on the basis of their structure, origin, and sugar specificity. The binding...
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Genome-wide analysis of lectins in cyanobacteria: from evolutionary mode to motif patterns
Lectins are glycoproteins that can bind to specific carbohydrates, and different lectin families exhibit different biological activities. They are...
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Aquatic Lectins Immune Defense, Biological Recognition and Molecular Advancements
This book provides the latest information on fish lectins from the perspective of inflammation and presents new ideas on the complicated mechanisms...
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Plant lectins as versatile tools to fight coronavirus outbreaks
The S protein forming the homotrimeric spikes of pathogenic beta-coronaviruses, such as MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2, is a highly glycosylated...
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Investigation on Mollusc Lectins
Mollusca is one of the largest phyla in the animal kingdom that inhabit diverse ecosystems across the planet earth. The innate immunity of mollusk...
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Aquatic Lectins: Biological Recognition Molecules
Lectins are water-soluble and they have a role in recognition at the cellular and molecular level and play several roles in biological recognition...
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Lectins and lectibodies: potential promising antiviral agents
In nature, lectins are widely dispersed proteins that selectively recognize and bind to carbohydrates and glycoconjugates via reversible bonds at...
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Aquatic Lectins: An Overview (A Paradigm)
Lectins are glycoproteins that are capable of binding reversibly and specifically to sugar moieties, especially the carbohydrate content of...
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Lectins from plants and algae act as anti-viral against HIV, influenza and coronaviruses
BackgroundCarbohydrate–lectin interactions are extremely specific as the lectin is capable of recognising monomeric and oligomeric sugars in a...
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Fish Lectins as Molecular Markers
Lectins are a collection of primordial carbohydrate-binding protein molecules with multiple functions. These proteins exist in fish and other animals...
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Antimicrobial and Immunomodulatory Role of Fish Lectins
Lectins are proteins that can bind to carbohydrates selectively and reversibly without changing the ligand’s covalent structure. Lectins are divided...
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Research advances and prospects of legume lectins
Lectins are widely distributed proteins having ability of binding selectively and reversibly with carbohydrates moieties and glycoconjugates....
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Comparative study, homology modelling and molecular docking with cancer associated glycans of two non-fetuin-binding Tepary bean lectins
We present the purification and characterization of the two most abundant isoforms of lectins isolated from Tepary bean ( Phaseolu s acutifolius )...
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Localization and Diverse Distribution of Fish Lectins
The source of lectins derived from the marine environment is found both intracellularly and extracellularly in biological fluids such as serum and...
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Fish Lectins in Host–Pathogen Interaction
Host–pathogen interactions are complex, governed by numerous factors such as host’s age, environment, behavior, immune system, and characteristics of...