Abstract

ENZYMES AND LECTINS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY: A CURRENT STATUS

Vladimir M. Lakhtin*, Mikhail V. Lakhtin, Valery Yu Davydkin, VladimirA. Aleshkin

Abstract

Examples of inter- and intra-molecular directions in co-functioning lectins and enzymes are summerized and ordered. Regularities of enzyme-lectin relationships are underlined and used as criteria of terms ―true lectins‖ and ―lectinic enzymes‖. The data accent importance of prospects of traditional and new branches of molecular and assembled science including and using enzyme-biotics as lectins, lectin-biotics as enzymes, lectin-enzyme complexes and assemblies with regulated pattern specificities. Further extended potential can be waiting for in molecular and clinical communication cell biology, microbiology, virology, medical bio/nano-technology and industry. Lectin-enzyme relationships provide expanded platform and basis for constructing advanced multi-functuinal autoregulated dense system agents influencing interactome of organism at all hierarchic levels of its organization and supporting a lot of possible innovations in medicine and biotechnology.

Keywords: enzyme; lectin domain; carbohydrate binding; CBM; recognition; pattern specificity; enzyme and lectin interaction; enzyme and lectin co-functioning; assembling; communication.