Lectins are widely distributed proteins having ability of binding selectively and reversibly
with carbohydrates moieties and glycoconjugates. Although lectins have been reported from …

To date, a number of mannose-binding lectins have been isolated and characterized from
plants and fungi. These proteins are composed of different structural scaffold structures …

The data explosion in the number of biological macromolecules deposited in the Protein
Data Bank (PDB)[1–3] opened the possibility to investigate the correlation of these …

Antimicrobial susceptibility pattern was determined in 100 strains of Vibrio isolated from the
Litopenaeus vannamei shrimp and identified phenotypically. A high antibiotic‐resistance …

Lectins hold great promise not only as reagents for diagnostics and drug discovery but also
as a novel class of biopharmaceutical products. In fact, new research directions in the last …

In the pursuit of safer and more effective treatments, there is a growing interest in plant-
derived compounds, particularly lectins, because of their diverse pharmacological …

Fast and reliable evaluation of the hydrogen bond potential energy has a significant impact
in the drug design and development since it allows the assessment of large databases of …

Homology modeling is a computational approach to generate three-dimensional structures
of protein targets when experimental data about similar proteins are available. Although …

Lectins are proteins that can bind specifically and reversibly to carbohydrates. This capacity
gives lectins multiple biological roles and biotechnological applications. Although lectins …

Over 30 years ago, an intriguing posttranslational modification was found responsible for
creating concanavalin A (conA), a carbohydrate-binding protein from jack bean (Canavalia …