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 …

Pharmaceutical and biomedical applications of affinity chromatography: recent trends and developments

DS Hage, JA Anguizola, C Bi, R Li, R Matsuda… - … of pharmaceutical and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Affinity chromatography is a separation technique that has become increasingly important in
work with biological samples and pharmaceutical agents. This method is based on the use …

Lectins purified from medicinal and edible mushrooms: Insights into their antiviral activity against pathogenic viruses

YA El-Maradny, EM El-Fakharany… - International journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
For thousands of years, fungi have been a valuable and promising source of therapeutic
agents for treatment of various diseases. Mushroom is a macrofungus which has been …

Lectins from red algae and their biomedical potential

RS Singh, AK Walia - Journal of applied phycology, 2018 - Springer
Lectins are unique proteins or glycoproteins of non-immune origin that bind specifically to
carbohydrates. They recognise and interact reversibly to either free carbohydrates or …

Mushroom lectins in biomedical research and development

RS Singh, AK Walia, JF Kennedy - International journal of biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Lectins are unique biorecognition proteins which recognize and interact with various cell
surface carbohydrates/glycoproteins. These ubiquitous molecules are involved in various …

Algal lectins as promising biomolecules for biomedical research

RS Singh, SR Thakur, P Bansal - Critical reviews in microbiology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Lectins are natural bioactive ubiquitous proteins or glycoproteins of non-immune response
that bind reversibly to glycans of glycoproteins, glycolipids and polysaccharides possessing …

Bioactive components of Laetiporus species and their pharmacological effects

Y Duan, J Qi, J Gao, C Liu - Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2022 - Springer
Laetiporus species are brown rot fungi belonging to the order Polyporales in the division
Basidiomycota. These species produce a variety of metabolites and provide a great source …

Mushroom lectins as promising anticancer substances

R Sarup Singh, H Preet Kaur… - Current Protein and …, 2016 - ingentaconnect.com
Lectins are proteins/glycoproteins of non-immune origin, which are widely distributed in
nature. They have at least one non-catalytic domain, which binds reversibly to specific …

The use of cyanobacterial metabolites as natural medical and biotechnological tools

MH Saad, EM El-Fakharany, MS Salem… - Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic, Gram-negative bacteria that are considered one of the
most morphologically diverse groups of prokaryotes with a chief role in the global nutrient …

Cyanobacterial lectins characteristics and their role as antiviral agents

RS Singh, AK Walia, JS Khattar, DP Singh… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Lectins are ubiquitous proteins/glycoproteins of non-immune origin that bind reversibly to
carbohydrates in non-covalent and highly specific manner. These lectin-glycan interactions …