A journey from structure to function of bacterial lipopolysaccharides

F Di Lorenzo, KA Duda, R Lanzetta, A Silipo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a crucial constituent of the outer membrane of most Gram-
negative bacteria, playing a fundamental role in the protection of bacteria from …

130 years of plant lectin research

M Tsaneva, EJM Van Damme - Glycoconjugate journal, 2020 - Springer
Lectins are proteins with diverse molecular structures that share the ability to recognize and
bind specifically and reversibly to carbohydrate structures without changing the …

[HTML][HTML] Antibiotics: conventional therapy and natural compounds with antibacterial activity—a pharmaco-toxicological screening

DF Pancu, A Scurtu, IG Macasoi, D Marti, M Mioc… - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Antibiotics are considered as a cornerstone of modern medicine and their discovery offers
the resolution to the infectious diseases problem. However, the excessive use of antibiotics …

Structure-function and application of plant lectins in disease biology and immunity

A Mishra, A Behura, S Mawatwal, A Kumar… - Food and Chemical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Lectins are proteins with a high degree of stereospecificity to recognize various sugar
structures and form reversible linkages upon interaction with glyco-conjugate complexes …

The multiple roles of plant lectins

T De Coninck, EJM Van Damme - Plant Science, 2021 - Elsevier
For decades, the biological roles of plant lectins remained obscure and subject to
speculation. With the advent of technological and scientific progress, researchers have …

Evaluation of microalgae antiviral activity and their bioactive compounds

DA Carbone, P Pellone, C Lubritto, C Ciniglia - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
During the last year, science has been focusing on the research of antivirally active
compounds overall after the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, which caused a great amount of …

Clean-label alternatives for food preservation: An emerging trend

K Chauhan, A Rao - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Consumer demand for natural or'clean-label'food ingredients has risen over the past 50
years and continues growing. Consumers have become more aware of their health and …

Lectins: Biological significance to biotechnological application

D Chettri, M Boro, L Sarkar, AK Verma - Carbohydrate Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Lectins are a set of non-enzymatic carbohydrate binding proteins appearing in all domains
of life. They function to recognize, interact and bring about reversible binding of a specific …

[HTML][HTML] Plant lectins as prospective antiviral biomolecules in the search for COVID-19 eradication strategies

MN Ahmed, R Jahan, V Nissapatorn… - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lectins or clusters of carbohydrate-binding proteins of non-immune origin are distributed
chiefly in the Plantae. Lectins have potent anti-infectivity properties for several RNA viruses …

[HTML][HTML] Metschnikowia pulcherrima as an efficient biocontrol agent of Botrytis cinerea infection in apples: unraveling protection mechanisms through yeast proteomics

A Fernandez-San Millan, J Fernandez-Irigoyen… - Biological Control, 2023 - Elsevier
The results obtained in this study show that the Mp-30 strain of Metschnikowia pulcherrima
is able to completely prevent Botrytis cinerea infection in apples, which is a major …