Isolation, characterization and molecular cloning of a leaf-specific lectin from ramsons (Allium ursinum L.)

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 531-535

  Smeets, Koen ^a   Van Damme, Els J M ^a   Van Leuven, Fred ^a   Peumans, Willy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Allium; Leaf specific; Lectin; Ramsons

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LECTIN; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT DNA; PLANT LECTIN; PLANT RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; GARLIC; GENETICS; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ALLIUM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT, VIRAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; HIV-1; HIV-2; HUMANS; LECTINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT LECTINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

ALLIUM; ALLIUM ASCALONICUM; ALLIUM CEPA; ALLIUM PORRUM; ALLIUM SATIVUM; ALLIUM URSINUM; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2;

EID: 0031282638     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005887016694     Document Type: Article

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