Exempel på lectin

• Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that a protein called lectin found in edible mushrooms can target cancer cells and stop them multiplying.

• We did a study to assess whether intact peanut lectin enters the blood after eating peanuts.

• The lectin may bind to several glycoproteins on the cell surface.

• Proteins called lectins in certain dried pulses, like kidney beans, cause a reaction unless well cooked.

• Lectins (carbohydrate-binding proteins), are known to play a role in defence responses against a range of bacteria, fungi, and viruses in plants.

• Interactions between carbohydrates in parasites and lectins in fish can be speculated to be both positive and negative.

• Cells are visualized with lectin histochemistry in paraffin sections.

• The measurement was performed using three ova for each lectin.

• Numbers and types of cones were determined using lectin staining in retinal flatmounts and cone-specific antibodies in radial frozen sections.

• Moreover, the importance of lectin-tegument interaction is emphasized by studies showing that the complement of lectin-reactive carbohydrates changes during larval development.

• To overcome this problem, pretreatment of oocytes with lectin was undertaken in this study.

• Ultrastructural localisation of lectin binding sites of zonae pellucidae and plasma membranes of mammalian eggs.

• In general, cell adhesion induced by lectins is dependent on specific saccharide-containing binding sites on the cell membranes.

• Ultrastructural localization of lectin binding sites of the zonae pellucidae and plasma membranes of mammalian eggs.

• This suggests a possible mechanism by which this lectin affects the progression of this disease.

• Structures and functions associated with the group of mammalian lectins containing collagen-like sequences.

• Location and behavioral effects of lectin binding on entomopathogenic nematodes with different foraging strategies.

• Cells were stained to examine carbohydrate composition using several different lectins conjugated with a fluorescent chromophore.

• It is postulated that these lectins can interact with glycosylated structures of transmitted pathogens, but this has not yet been proved.

• Variations in extent of lectin binding within populations may be related to moulting.