Fucose-specific

E. M. V. Johansson, E. Kolomiets, F. Rosenau, K.-E. Jaeger, T. Darbre, and J.-L. Reymond, Combinatorial variation of branching length and multivalency in a large (390, 625 member) glycopeptide dendrimer library Ligands for Fucose-specific lectins, New J. Chem., 31 (2007) 1291-1299. 

Cell division is stimulated by lectins (for a review, see Ref. 188) and by other saccharide-directed reagents, for example, sodium periodate and D-galactose oxidase after desialylation,189 but there is no evidence that it is the fucopyranosyl residues that are the specific receptors in these instances. The L-fucose-specific lectins from, for example, Lotus tetragonolobus and Ulex europeus are not mitogenic. 

Some plant glycosides and polysaccharides cross-react195,197 with reagents for blood-group antigens, and interesting cross-reactions were also shown by methylated-fucose haptens and L-fucose-specific lectins for example, it was found that 2-O-methyl-L-fucose was immunodominant in the Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata), and that the 3-0-... 

Vardar-Unlu G, McSharry C, Douglas LJ. Fucose-specific adhesins on germ tubes of Candida albicans. FEMS Immunol Med. Microbiol. 1998 20 55-67. 

Hall, S.E., Savill, J.S., Henson, P.M. and Haslett, C. (1994). Apoptotic neutrophils are phagocytosed by fibroblasts with participation of the fibroblast vitronectin receptor and involvement of a mannose/fucose-specific lectin. J. Immunol. 153, 3218-3227. 

Recently, a fucose-specific lectin associated with the bacterial surface of Rhizobium lupinii has been purified, but its role in the interactions between the bacteria and the lupin root has not been established [114]. A fucose-specific lectin has also been isolated from the cell walls of Agrobacterium tumefaciens, a bacterium belonging to the Rhizobiaceaea family which infects dicotyledonous plants and forms crown gall [115]. 

Starch cross-linked in the presence of L-fucose with epichlorohydrin has provided a matrix for the affinity chromatographic purification of the L-fucose-specific haemagglutinin produced by a Streptomyces species. ... 

Epoxy-activated agarose has been treated with 8-amino-xanthine and used to isolate urate oxidase. Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide immobilized on epoxy-activated agarose provides an immunoadsorbent for isolation of antisera, and L-fucose immobilized on the same support may be used for the purification of L-fucose-specific lectins. Glutathione-agarose matrices prepared after epoxy-activation have been successfully applied to the purification of glutathione S -transferases. An 5-hexyl glutathione derivative similarly prepared has been used for purification of glyoxalase I from rabbit liver. 

CBMs from families 6, 32 and 36 are structurally very similar to fucose-specific lectin of Anguilla anguilla, especially regarding the location of their metal ion and carbohydrate-... 

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