Structure-function and application of plant lectins in disease biology and immunity

A Mishra, A Behura, S Mawatwal, A Kumar… - Food and Chemical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Lectins are proteins with a high degree of stereospecificity to recognize various sugar
structures and form reversible linkages upon interaction with glyco-conjugate complexes …

Medicinal plants, human health and biodiversity: a broad review

T Sen, SK Samanta - Biotechnological applications of biodiversity, 2015 - Springer
<? xm-replace_text {Heading}?> Abstract Biodiversity contributes significantly towards
human livelihood and development and thus plays a predominant role in the well being of …

Lectins: production and practical applications

SK Lam, TB Ng - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2011 - Springer
Lectins are proteins found in a diversity of organisms. They possess the ability to agglutinate
erythrocytes with known carbohydrate specificity since they have at least one non-catalytic …

Legume lectins: proteins with diverse applications

I Lagarda-Diaz, AM Guzman-Partida… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Lectins are a diverse class of proteins distributed extensively in nature. Among these
proteins; legume lectins display a variety of interesting features including antimicrobial; …

Phytochemical and biological diversity of triterpenoid saponins from family Sapotaceae: A comprehensive review

MH Baky, MB Elsaid, MA Farag - Phytochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Sapotaceae is a flowering plants family reported for its richness in triterpenoid saponins.
Sapotaceae comprises a large number of fruit-producing plants of nutritional and medicinal …

Research advances and prospects of legume lectins

R Katoch, A Tripathi - Journal of biosciences, 2021 - Springer
Lectins are widely distributed proteins having ability of binding selectively and reversibly
with carbohydrates moieties and glycoconjugates. Although lectins have been reported from …

Proteins with antifungal properties and other medicinal applications from plants and mushrooms

JH Wong, TB Ng, RCF Cheung, XJ Ye… - Applied microbiology …, 2010 - Springer
Living organisms produce a myriad of molecules to protect themselves from fungal
pathogens. This review focuses on antifungal proteins from plants and mushrooms, many of …

Antimicrobial lectin from Schinus terebinthifolius leaf

FS Gomes, TF Procópio, TH Napoleão… - Journal of applied …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Aims Schinus terebinthifolius leaves are used for treating human diseases caused by micro‐
organisms. This work reports the isolation, characterization and antimicrobial activity of S …

[HTML][HTML] Plant lectins: A new antimicrobial frontier

EHE Konozy, MEM Osman, AI Dirar… - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pathogenic bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, and other microbes constantly change to
ensure survival. Several pathogens have adopted strict and intricate strategies to fight …

Genus Pouteria: Chemistry and biological activity

CAM Silva, LA Simeoni, D Silveira - Revista Brasileira de …, 2009 - SciELO Brasil
The genus Pouteria belongs to the family Sapotaceae and can be widely found around the
World. These plants have been used as building material, as food, because the eatable …