Structural studies of an anti-inflammatory lectin from Canavalia boliviana seeds in complex with dimannosides.

Plant lectins, especially those purified from species of the Leguminosae family, represent the best-studied group of carbohydrate-binding proteins. Lectins purified from seeds of the Diocleinae subtribe exhibit a high degree of sequence identity notwithstanding that they show very distinct biologica...

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Main Authors: Gustavo Arruda Bezerra, Roland Viertlmayr, Tales Rocha Moura, Plínio Delatorre, Bruno Anderson Matias Rocha, Kyria Santiago do Nascimento, Jozi Godoy Figueiredo, Ingrid Gonçalves Bezerra, Cicero Silvano Teixeira, Rafael Conceição Simões, Celso Shiniti Nagano, Nylane Maria Nunes de Alencar, Karl Gruber, Benildo Sousa Cavada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4035259?pdf=render