Lentil carbohydrate-binding specificity

Kornfeld, K., Reitman, M.-L. and Kornfeld, R. (1981). The carbohydrate-binding specificity of pea and lentil lectins. Fucose is an important determinant. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 256,6633-6640. 

In summary, the lentil lectins exhibit a carbohydrate-binding specificity similar to those of the pea lectin and con A primary specificity is towards a-D-mannopyranosyl residues (2), and secondary is to a-D-... 

Many unanswered questions remain with respect to the lentil lectins. These include the chemical relationship between the two lectins, a comparison of their carbohydrate-binding specificity, a study of the binding of furanoid sugars (for example, a- and /3-arabinofuranosides) to the lectins, and a determination of the H or O atoms of each hydroxyl group which may be involved in the binding phenomenon. There is also the question as to the size of the binding site will the lentil-lectin site be more complementary to sequences of a-D-(l— 2)-mannopyranosyl residues than is con A (compare Ref. 204) ... 

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