PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A LECTIN (PLANT HEMAGGLUTININ) WITH BLOOD GROUP-A SPECIFICITY FROM DOLICHOS-BIFLORUS
PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A LECTIN (PLANT HEMAGGLUTININ) WITH BLOOD GROUP-A SPECIFICITY FROM DOLICHOS-BIFLORUS
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00806a022
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发表时间:
1970-01-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
KABAT, EA
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作者:
ETZLER, ME;KABAT, EA
Marilynn E. Etzlerf and Elvin A. Kabat abstract: The blood group A specific lectin from Dolichos bifiorus seeds was purified by adsorption on to insoluble polyleucyl blood group A substance and subsequent elution with 2-deoxy-/3-D-galactopyranoside (D-GalNAc). The purified lectin was homogeneous by ultracentrifugation, gave one diffuse band on acrylamide gel electrophoresis under acid and alkaline conditions, formed one line in immunodiffusion and immunoelectrophoresis against rabbit antisera to the crude seed extract, and was totally precipitated by human blood group A substance; it had a tendency to aggregate in solution. Amino acid analyses of the purified lectin showed a large amount of aspartic acid and serine but no cysteine or methionine. The lectin contains about 2% hexose and has a molecular weight of 140,000 and an isoelectric point of pH 4.5. The lectin precipitated with blood group Ai and A2 substances as well as with the streptococcal group C poly-saccharide. The reactivity of each of these polysaccharides is-^ V^ Lany plants contain agglutinins capable of combining specifically with animal erythrocytes and other cells (for reviews, see Kriipe, 1956, Makela, 1957, and Bird, 1959). These hemagglutinins, called lectins (Boyd and Shapleigh, 1954b), are most frequently foundin the seeds of leguminous plants and differfrom one another in their specificities, cer-tain of which are directed toward the blood group ABH substances (cf. Makela, 1957).