| Literature DB >> 12871146 |
Abhay H Pande1, Rajesh K Gupta, Krishnan Hajela.
Abstract
Galectin-1 requires a reducing environment for its lectin activity and the carbohydrate binding function is destroyed in oxidizing condition. In this report we provide direct evidence that the oxidation of goat hepatic galectin-1 perturbs its carbohydrate recognition domain and this could be due to changes in secondary structure of goat hepatic galectin-1. Conformational changes in goat hepatic galectin-1 due to oxidation were investigated by absorption, fluorescence and circular dichroism measurements.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 12871146 DOI: 10.2174/0929866033478960
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Protein Pept Lett ISSN: 0929-8665 Impact factor: 1.890