Fruit-specific lectins from banana and plantain

Planta

Volumn 211, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 546-554

  Peumans, Willy J ^a   Zhang, Wenling ^a   Barre, Annick ^b   Houlès Astoul, Corinne ^b   Balint Kurti, Peter J ^c   Rovira, Paula ^d   Rougé, Pierre ^b   May, Gregory D ^c   Van Leuven, Fred ^a   Truffa Bachi, Paolo ^d   Van Damme, Els J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE ET DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^c PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Fruit lectins; Jacalin; Lectin; Mannose; Musa; Plantain

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; ERYTHROCYTE; FRUIT; JACALIN; LECTIN; MANNOSE; METHYL JASMONATE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PULP; RABBIT;

EMBRYOPHYTA; MUSA; MUSA ACUMINATA; MUSA X PARADISIACA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PLANTAGO;

EID: 0033786158     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004250000307     Document Type: Article

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