SSF51110

alpha-D-mannose-specific plant lectins

SUPERFAMILY entry
Member databaseSUPERFAMILY
SUPERFAMILY typehomologous superfamily

Description
Imported from IPR036426

A bulb lectin super-family (Amaryllidaceae, Orchidaceae and Aliaceae) contains a ~115-residue-long domain whose overall three dimensional fold is very similar to that of
[2, 1, 3]
:


 * Dictyostelium discoideum comitin, an actin binding protein
 * Curculigo latifolia curculin, a sweet tasting and taste-modifying protein


This domain generally binds mannose, but in at least one protein, curculin, it is apparently devoid of mannose-binding activity.

References
Imported from IPR036426

1.Structure of mannose-specific snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis) lectin is representative of a new plant lectin family. Hester G, Kaku H, Goldstein IJ, Wright CS. Nat. Struct. Biol. 2, 472-9, (1995). View articlePMID: 7664110

2.Curculin, a sweet-tasting and taste-modifying protein, is a non-functional mannose-binding lectin. Barre A, Van Damme EJ, Peumans WJ, Rouge P. Plant Mol. Biol. 33, 691-8, (1997). View articlePMID: 9132060

3.Mannose-binding plant lectins: different structural scaffolds for a common sugar-recognition process. Barre A, Bourne Y, Van Damme EJ, Peumans WJ, Rouge P. Biochimie 83, 645-51, (2001). PMID: 11522393

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