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Plant Lectins and Lectin Receptor Kinases

A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2019) | Viewed by 177

Special Issue Editors

Laboratory of Phytopathology, Plant Sciences Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, BP 42617 Auzeville, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Lectins are widespread proteins, especially throughout the green lineage, and have been recognized as carbohydrate-binding proteins for a long time. They are intra- or extracellular proteins and are either soluble or associated with membranes. In plants, lectins are often part of multidomain proteins, such as lectin receptor-like kinases and lectin receptor-like proteins, in which the lectin domains are extracellular, facing the cell wall.

Lectins are key components in a vast array of biological processes in plants, including cell-to-cell communication, development, and defense against biotic and abiotic stress. Glycans, the potential ligands of lectins, are also present inside and outside cells. While protein–glycan interactions govern important recognition events in plants, the ligands of lectins are not exclusively glycan in nature. For instance, peptides and nucleotides were also described as ligands for lectin receptor-like kinases. However, for these receptors, a firm grasp of ligand perception and downstream processes is still lacking and remains to be elucidated.

This Special Issue of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, entitled “Plant Lectins and Lectin Receptor Kinases”, welcomes original research in model plants, as well as crop species, and mini and full reviews covering recent and on-going research including novel methods, physiological and defence-related functions and underlying regulatory mechanisms, and novel specificities of lectins in the green lineage.

Prof. Dr. Francine Govers
Prof. Dr. Hervé Canut
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • lectins
  • lectin receptor kinases
  • plant-microbe interactions
  • plant development
  • cell signalling
  • sugar recognition

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