Purification and characterization of a novel lectin from a freshwater cyanobacterium, Oscillatoria agardhii

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 169-177

  Sato, Yuichiro ^a   Murakami, Masahiro ^b   Miyazawa, Keisuke ^a   Hori, Kanji ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agglutinins; Blue green algae; Carbohydrate binding specificity; Cyanobacteria; Eucheuma; Isolation; Lectin; Myxococcus xanthus; N Terminal sequence; Oscillatoria agardhii

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; HEMAGGLUTININ; LECTIN;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMAGGLUTINATION; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RABBIT; SHEEP; TEMPERATURE;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; EUCHEUMA; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; OSCILLATORIA; PHORMIDIUM FOVEOLARUM; PLANKTOTHRIX AGARDHII; UNCULTURED CYANOBACTERIUM;

EID: 0034057569     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0491(99)00164-9     Document Type: Article

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