Wood cell wall polysaccharides can be probed with monoclonal antibodies and carbohydrate-binding modules (CBMs). Binding of monoclonal antibodies to β-1-4-xylan, β-1-4-mannan, β-1-3-glucan, and α-1-5-arabinan structures were observed in native Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carrière) wood cell walls. Furthermore CBMs of different families, differing in their affinities for crystalline c...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This review summarizes the fungal diagnostic measures currently available for use in paediatric patients at high risk for developing invasive fungal disease (IFD) and those suspected of having an IFD. The clinical utility of each test is described based on reported performances of individual tests in specific paediatric populations. RECENT FINDINGS Available studies in the p...

Currently, mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS) are added to the production costs of Nile tilapia prevent and avoid diseases. An alternative aquatic plants rich in biologically active compounds such as Lemna gibba, a freshwater macrophyte, Ulva lactuca, green seaweed, which have shown productive economic efficiency feed for livestock, poultry, fish, but their effect functional ingredient has not been ...

Abstract Fenugreek ( Trigonella foenum graecum ) is an annual plant belonging to the family Leguminosae or Fabaceae. The seeds of fenugreek contain 26.8% soluble fiber chemically identified as galactomannans with properties similar guar and psyllium husk so on. Galactomannans are biopolymers consisting linear core poly (1,4)‐β‐D‐mannan backbone having varying degrees D‐galactosyl substituents a...

The high resistance of Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes, the causal agent of Chagas' disease, to complement involves several parasite strategies. In these in vitro studies, we show that T. cruzi calreticulin (TcCRT) and two subfragments thereof (TcCRT S and TcCRT R domains) bind specifically to recognition subcomponents of the classical and lectin activation pathways (i.e., to collagenous tail...

Individuals with low levels of mannan-binding lectin (MBL) appear to be susceptible to infectious diseases. This suggests that substitution therapy with MBL might be a beneficial treatment of patients with MBL deficiency. A production process for an MBL product has been developed from a fraction II+III precipitate obtained by ethanol fractionation of plasma. The MBL process includes three chrom...

ABBREVIATIONS IN THIS CHAPTER Anti-Mn Anti-mannan antibody AST Antifungal susceptibility testing ECIL European Conference on Infections in Leukemia ESCMID European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases IA Invasive aspergillosis IC Invasive candidiasis IDSA Infectious Disease Society of America IFI Invasive fungal infection Mn Mannan antigen TDM Therapeutic drug monitoring 1. ...

Beta-mannanase otherwise known as mannan endo-1,4-βmannosidase or 1,4-β-D-mannanase with an enzyme commission (EC) 3.2.1.78 breakdowns β-1,4-mannosidic bonds in the main chain of glucomannans, galactomannans and β-1,4-mannans [1]. It transforms the abundant mannan-rich heteromannan, glucomannan and galactomannan substrates into mannooligosaccharides [2] and a small amount of mannose, glucose an...