"Plant Lectins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Protein or glycoprotein substances of plant origin that bind to sugar moieties in cell walls or membranes. Some carbohydrate-metabolizing proteins (ENZYMES) from PLANTS also bind to carbohydrates, however they are not considered lectins. Many plant lectins change the physiology of the membrane of BLOOD CELLS to cause agglutination, mitosis, or other biochemical changes. They may play a role in plant defense mechanisms.
| Descriptor ID |
D037121
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.503.499 D12.776.765.678
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| Concept/Terms |
Agglutinins, Plant- Agglutinins, Plant
- Phytagglutinins
- Plant Agglutinins
- Hemagglutinins, Plant
- Plant Hemagglutinins
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| 1991 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Plant Lectins" by people in Profiles.
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Ochoa-Alvarez JA, Krishnan H, Shen Y, Acharya NK, Han M, McNulty DE, Hasegawa H, Hyodo T, Senga T, Geng JG, Kosciuk M, Shin SS, Goydos JS, Temiakov D, Nagele RG, Goldberg GS. Plant lectin can target receptors containing sialic acid, exemplified by podoplanin, to inhibit transformed cell growth and migration. PLoS One. 2012; 7(7):e41845.
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Toskala E, Smiley-Jewell SM, Wong VJ, King D, Plopper CG. Temporal and spatial distribution of ciliogenesis in the tracheobronchial airways of mice. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2005 Sep; 289(3):L454-9.
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Collins NH, Carabasi MH, Bleau S, Jagiello C, Young JW, Castro-Malaspina H, Flomenberg N, Papadopoulos EB, Emanuel D, Gillio A, et al. New technology for the depletion of T cells from soybean lectin agglutinated, HLA-matched bone marrow grafts for leukemia: initial laboratory and clinical results. Prog Clin Biol Res. 1992; 377:427-39.
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Sykulev YK, Yeronina TV, Aleshkin VA, Ostreiko KK. Galactose-containing epitopes on the surface of IgG model immune complexes are accessible for specific binding with the high molecular weight ligand, Ricinus agglutinin, in solution-light-scattering studies. Mol Immunol. 1991 Oct; 28(10):1105-11.
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Incefy GS, Flomenberg N, Heller G, Kernan NA, Brochstein J, Kirkpatrick D, Kapoor N, Groshen S, O'Reilly RJ. Evidence that appearance of thymulin in plasma follows lymphoid chimerism and precedes development of immunity in patients with lethal combined immunodeficiency transplanted with T cell-depleted haploidentical marrow. Transplantation. 1990 Jul; 50(1):55-61.
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O'Reilly RJ, Keever C, Kernan NA, Brochstein J, Collins N, Flomenberg N, Laver J, Emanuel D, Dupont B, Cunningham I, et al. HLA nonidentical T cell depleted marrow transplants: a comparison of results in patients treated for leukemia and severe combined immunodeficiency disease. Transplant Proc. 1987 Dec; 19(6 Suppl 7):55-60.