Lectins of the Araceae family: Insights, distinctions, and future avenues—A three-decade investigation

EHE Konozy, AI Dirar, MEM Osman - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2024 - Elsevier
The Araceae family boasts> 3000 species of flowering plants that thrive across the tropics.
Among the focal points of study within this family are lectins, proteins with affinity for binding …

Lectins from plants and algae act as anti-viral against HIV, influenza and coronaviruses

S Naik, S Kumar - Molecular Biology Reports, 2022 - Springer
Background Carbohydrate–lectin interactions are extremely specific as the lectin is capable
of recognising monomeric and oligomeric sugars in a reversible manner. It has been known …

Exploring the binding effect and mechanism of glycyrrhizin to ovomucin by combining spectroscopic analysis and molecular docking

Z Shengnan, Z Yingjie, C Junyue… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ovomucin (OVM) is an ideal natural macromolecular glycoprotein extracted from eggs with
good adhesion. Based on the defect that glycyrrhizin (GL) has good antiviral activity but fast …

Isolation, characterization of galactose-specific lectin from Odoiporus longicollis and its antibacterial and anticancer activities

K Tamilarasan, A Annapoorani, R Manikandan… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lectins are renowned hemagglutinins and multivalent proteins with a well known quality for
sugar-binding specificity that participate significantly in invertebrate defense functions …

Tandem high resolution mass spectrometry based phytochemical composition of Sauromatum guttatum tubers and its enzyme inhibitory potential with molecular …

K Bashir, S Naz, HM Rasheed, U Farooq… - … of Chromatography A, 2022 - Elsevier
Sauromatum guttatum has been traditionally used in the treatment of snakebite and tumors
in India, Pakistan, and China. However, it lacks detailed phytochemical composition like …

Urea titration of a lipase from Pseudomonas sp. reveals four different conformational states, with a stable partially folded state explaining its high aggregation …

M Qafary, K Khajeh, M Ramazzotti… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The conversion of soluble proteins into amyloid fibrils has importance in protein chemistry,
biology, biotechnology and medicine. A novel lipase from Pseudomonas sp. was previously …

Exploring thyroxine binding globulin structural changes and its release from human hepatoblastoma cells upon interaction with silica particles: A prelude to …

M Wang, YC Wang, ZL Bai, Y Sui, D Yin… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Endocrine dysregulation in the presence of environmental chemical risk factors is a global
adverse health concern. The aim of this investigation was to explore the structural changes …

Relevance of amorphous and amyloid-like aggregates of the p53 core domain to loss of its DNA-binding activity

E Hibino, T Tenno, H Hiroaki - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The anti-oncogenic protein p53 is a transcription factor that prevents tumorigenesis by
inducing gene repair proteins or apoptosis under DNA damage. Since the DNA-binding …

DdeL, a novel thermostable lectin from Dypsis decaryi seeds: Biological properties

MÉLM Torres, RMP Brandão-Costa… - Process …, 2019 - Elsevier
A novel thermostable lectin, called DdeL, was obtained from the extract of Dypsis decaryi
seeds. The extract of the tegument had the highest specific hemagglutination activity (196.03 …

Kanamycin-Mediated Conformational Dynamics of Escherichia coli Outer Membrane Protein TolC

BS Pattanayak, B Dehury, M Priyadarshinee… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
TolC is a member of the outer membrane efflux proteins (OEPs) family and acts as an exit
duct to export proteins, antibiotics, and substrate molecules across the Escherichia coli cell …