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SUBMITTER: Etzler ME
PROVIDER: S-EPMC21950 | biostudies-literature | 1999 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19990501 10
A lectin isolated from the roots of the legume, Dolichos biflorus, binds to Nod factors produced by rhizobial strains that nodulate this plant and has a deduced amino acid sequence with no significant homology to any lectin reported to date. This lectin also is an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of phosphoanhydride bonds of nucleoside di- and triphosphates; the enzyme activity is increased in the presence of carbohydrate ligands. This lectin-nucleotide phosphohydrolase (LNP) has a substrate ...[more]