Cátedra de Microbiología, Departamento de Biociencias, Facultad de Química, UdelaR, Montevideo, Uruguay.
J Basic Microbiol. 2014 Feb;54(2):89-96. doi: 10.1002/jobm.201200229. Epub 2013 Mar 5.
Aqueous extracts of basidiomycete fungi were screened for the presence of lectins by hemagglutination (HA) assays with mouse, rabbit, and sheep red blood cells. From mycelia and/or fruiting bodies, 23 extracts were prepared; 15 extracts exhibited HA activity towards mouse erythrocytes, with specific activities ranging from 12 to 440 lectin units (LU) mg(-1) protein. In HA inhibition assays, 43 carbohydrates including mono-, di-, tri-, tetrasaccharides, glycoproteins, and polysaccharides were tested as haptens, to determine the saccharide-binding specificities of the lectins. A novel lectin with specificity towards N-acetyl-glucosamine was purified from mycelia of Punctularia atropurpurascens using affinity chromatography on chitosan-Sepharose. The lectin has a subunit molecular mass of 67 kDa determined by SDS-PAGE and a pI of 5.0.
采用血凝(HA)试验,以小鼠、兔和绵羊的红细胞为研究对象,筛选了担子菌真菌的水提物中是否存在凝集素。从菌丝体和/或子实体中制备了 23 种提取物;其中 15 种提取物对小鼠红细胞具有 HA 活性,其比活性范围为 12 至 440 个凝集素单位(LU)/mg(-1)蛋白。在 HA 抑制试验中,测试了 43 种碳水化合物,包括单糖、二糖、三糖、四糖、糖蛋白和多糖,作为半抗原,以确定凝集素的糖结合特异性。从暗紫丝膜菌的菌丝体中,通过壳聚糖-琼脂糖亲和层析,从暗紫丝膜菌的菌丝体中纯化出一种对 N-乙酰葡萄糖胺具有特异性的新型凝集素。通过 SDS-PAGE 测定,该凝集素的亚基分子量为 67 kDa,等电点为 5.0。