concanavalin
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Concanavalin A — Crystallographic structure of a tetramer of jack bean concanavalin A (the monomers are colored cyan, green, red, and magenta respectively). Calcium (gold) and manganese cations (grey) are depicted as spheres … Wikipedia
Concanavalin A — (Canavalia ensiformis) Vorhandene Strukturdaten: s. UniProt … Deutsch Wikipedia
concanavalin A — concanavalin A. См. конканавалин А. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) … Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.
concanavalin A — [kän΄kə nav′ə lən ā′] n. a lectin isolated from jack bean that agglutinates red blood cells, human cancer cells, etc. and causes resting cells to divide: used to stimulate or test the activity of certain cells, as T cells * * * … Universalium
concanavalin A — [kän΄kə nav′ə lən ā′] n. a lectin isolated from jack bean that agglutinates red blood cells, human cancer cells, etc. and causes resting cells to divide: used to stimulate or test the activity of certain cells, as T cells … English World dictionary
concanavalin — noun Etymology: com + canavalin, a noncrystalline globulin found in the jack bean, from New Latin Canavalia, genus name of the jack bean Date: 1917 a protein that occurs in the jack bean and is a mitogen and hemagglutinin … New Collegiate Dictionary
concanavalin A — (= Con A) A lectin isolated from the jack bean, Canavalia ensiformis … Dictionary of molecular biology
concanavalin A — A phytomitogen, extracted from the jack bean (Canavalia ensiformis) that agglutinates the blood of mammals and reacts with glucosans; like other phytohemagglutinins, conA stimulates T lymphocytes more vigorously than it does B lymphocytes. * * *… … Medical dictionary
Concanavalin A — Con|ca|na|va|lin A [↑ co u. ↑ Canavanin], das; s; Abk.: Con A: Metallprotein mit Calcium u. Mangan Ionen u. einem MG von 104 000, das als ↑ Lectin Erythrozyten u. Lymphozyten agglutiniert … Universal-Lexikon
concanavalin — con·ca·nav·a·lin .kän kə nav ə lən n either of two crystalline globulins occurring esp. in the seeds of the jack bean esp one that is a potent hemagglutinin … Medical dictionary