Bandeiraea simplicifolia seeds, lectin

Dennis, J. W. (1985). Partial reversion of the metastatic phenotype in a wheat germ agglutinin-resistant mutant of the murine tumor cell line MDAY-D2 selected with Bandeiraea simplicifolia seed lectin. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 74, 111 1-1120. 

The seeds of Griffonia (Bandeiraea) simplicifolia contain a second lectin - GS II. It is a tetramer composed of four apparently identical subunits (A/r = 30000) with an aggregate, Mr = 113 000 Da by gel filtration [142]. The lectin is a glycoprotein with three cysteine residues per subunit a disulfide bond links two subunits [142], Each subunit contains a binding site for GlcNAc with ATa= 1.3x 10 M" at 37"C [143]. 

The Sepharose-immobilized form of a lectin from the seeds of Bandeiraea simplicifolia has been used in a single-step purification of a galactomannan from... 

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