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Lectins of beneficial microbes: system organisation, functioning and functional superfamily

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M. Lakhtin lakhtinv@yandex.ru

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V. Lakhtin lakhtinv@yandex.ru
G.N. Gabrichevsky Research Institute for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Department of Medical Biotechnology, Admiral Makarov Street 10, 125212 Moscow, Russia

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V. Alyoshkin lakhtinv@yandex.ru
G.N. Gabrichevsky Research Institute for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Department of Medical Biotechnology, Admiral Makarov Street 10, 125212 Moscow, Russia

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S. Afanasyev lakhtinv@yandex.ru
G.N. Gabrichevsky Research Institute for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Department of Medical Biotechnology, Admiral Makarov Street 10, 125212 Moscow, Russia

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Abstract

In this review our last results and proposals with respect to general aspects of lectin studies are summarised and compared. System presence, organisation and functioning of lectins are proposed, and accents on beneficial symbiotic microbial lectins studies are presented. The proposed general principles of lectin functioning allows for a comparison of lectins with other carbohydrate-recognition systems. A new structure-functional superfamily of symbiotic microbial lectins is proposed and its main properties are described. The proposed superfamily allows for extended searches of the biological activities of any microbial member. Prospects of lectins of beneficial symbiotic microorganisms are discussed.

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