C-type lectins
Reverse genetics demonstrate the role of mucosal C type lectins in food particle selection in the oyster Crassostrea virginica
... two lectins may have different roles, or at least different kinetics, during immune ...as C-type lectins have been found to be involved in various immunological functions in mollusks, in ...
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C type lectins and human epithelial membrane protein1: Are they new proteins in keratin disorders?
... Here we report a family with a clinical spectrum of Pachyonychia Congenita Tarda (PCT) encompassing two generations via a balanced chromosomal trans- location between 4q26 and 12p12.3. We discuss the effects of ...
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Generation and characterization of β1,2 gluco oligosaccharide probes fromBrucella abortuscyclic β glucan and their recognition by C type lectins of the immune system
... of C (calcium-dependent)-type lectin-like proteins; it lacks the canonical amino acid residues for ligating calcium, required for carbohydrate binding in classical C-type lectins ...
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Dangerous liaisons at the virological synapse
... to C-type lectins or other cell-surface receptors, without necessarily becoming infected, and re-present infectious virus to a permissive target cell (a process known as infection in trans ...
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Characterization of Glycoprotein-Mediated Entry of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus
... VSVpv. C-type lectins appear to play a critical role in the binding of viruses to nonsusceptible cells, acting as enhancing binding ...in C-type lectin-expressing ...
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N-Linked Glycosylation Facilitates Sialic Acid-Independent Attachment and Entry of Influenza A Viruses into Cells Expressing DC-SIGN or L-SIGN
... It is widely recognized that sialic acid (SA) can mediate attachment of influenza virus to the cell surface, and yet the specific receptors that mediate virus entry are not known. For many viruses, a definitive ...
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Characterization of the Agglutinin in the Hepatopancreas of the Freshwater Crab Travancoriana Charu
... invertebrate lectins [32]. Most of the lectins reported in decapods are known to be dependent upon divalent cations, usually calcium, and they are sensitive to divalent chelators in a reversible or ...
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Morphology of brood pouch formation in the pot-bellied seahorse Hippocampus abdominalis
... comes, C-type lectins are expressed in the brood pouch; however, their precise expression sites have not yet been ...determined. C-type lectins are in a type of ...
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High glucose disrupts oligosaccharide recognition function via competitive inhibition : a potential mechanism for immune dysregulation in diabetes mellitus
... trehalose, which through its alpha-1,1 glycosidic linkage cannot adopt the open chain conformation necessary for protein glycation. These findings provide novel mechanistic explanations for many pathological ...
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Cloning and characterization of a mannose binding C type lectin gene from salivary gland of Aedes albopictus
... and C-type lectins, are postu- lated to have a role in controlling bacterial growth in sugar solutions stored in the crop or in the gut following a blood meal ...
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Comprehensive profiling of accessible surface glycans of mammalian sperm using a lectin microarray
... glycanbinders, lectins have been used for sperm analysis for many years ...acid-specific lectins to the sperm surface of several pri- mate species have already been demonstrated, such as SNA and MALII ...
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DC-SIGN and DC-SIGNR Interact with the Glycoprotein of Marburg Virus and the S Protein of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
... a C-type lectin ex- pressed on DCs, was initially discovered as an attachment factor for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which binds to the viral envelope protein (Env) and augments infection (11, ...
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Identification of erythrocytic types in dogs by antisera and lectins
... Although they showed no individual differences among dogs, many of these absorbed lectins gave a different pattern of reactivity as shown in Table 9 when tested against a series of red c[r] ...
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Ricin: An Ancient Story for a Timeless Plant Toxin
... Kinetics of binding of the toxic lectins abrin and ricin to surface receptors 524. of human cells[r] ...
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Reactivity of Avian RNA Tumor Viruses with Lectins
... Comparison of the envelope glycoproteins of avian RNA tumor viruses of the same subgroup obtained from either transformed or nontransformed cells showed that glycopeptides of viruses rel[r] ...
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Identification of Mushroom Lectins and Its Medicinal Properties
... of Lectins is similar to antibodies, forming an irreversible covalent ...them. Lectins are multivalent proteins or glycoproteins of non-immune origin that bind specifically and reversibly to carbohydrates, ...
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Detection of colorectal dysplasia using fluorescently labelled lectins
... other lectins to the luminal surface epithelium of fixed human colon tissue sections was investigated ...Both lectins showed variable bind- ing to normal epithelium (Supplementary ...or C, showed ...
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HOMOZYGOUS TYPE "c" HEMOGLOBIN
... Although the patient was clinically free of hernolytic disease, the peripheral blood showed numer- ous target cells, and a compensated hemolytic process was demonstrated. Clinical and th[r] ...
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Castor bean lectins : construction and sequencing of cDNA clones
... the lectins (in camnarclal preparations as well as those carried out In die laboratory) - and since it is an extremely allergenic protein, antisera raised against the agglutinin contain high anti-albumin ...
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Niemann-Pick disease type C
... This constitutes in most countries the most common form of the disease. A moderate splenomegaly (or hepa- tosplenomegaly) is frequent, and may have been detected at any earlier time, including the neonatal period. How- ...
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