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Protein & Peptide Letters

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ISSN (Print): 0929-8665
ISSN (Online): 1875-5305

Crystallization and Preliminary Crystallographic Studies of an Antitumour Lectin from the Edible Mushroom Agrocybe aegerita

Author(s): Na Yang, Yi Liang, Ye Xiang, Ying Zhang, Hui Sun and Da-Cheng Wang

Volume 12, Issue 7, 2005

Page: [705 - 707] Pages: 3

DOI: 10.2174/0929866054696181

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Abstract

An antitumour lectin named AAL has been purified from the fruiting body of edible mushroom Agrocybe aegerita. In addition to having a distinct bioactivity, AAL shows strong inhibition effects on human and mouse tumour cells. It has been shown that AAL exerts its antitumour effects via apoptosis-induction. AAL and AAL-lactose complex have been crystallized and their diffraction data were collected with resolution of 2.6 Å and 3.0 Å, respectively. Both crystals belong to space group P 6122 with unit cell parameters a = 123.98 Å, b = 123.98 Å, c = 56.86 Å, a= b=90 , g = 120 and a = 123.69 Å, b = 123.69 Å, c = 56.64 Å, α= β=90 , γ = 120 , respectively.

Keywords: lectin, mushroom, antitumour, apoptosis, dnase activity, crystallization


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