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Abstract
Mushrooms are famous for their nutritional and medicinal values and also for the diversity of bioactive compounds they contain including lectins. The present review is an attempt to summarize and discuss data available on molecular weights, structures, biological properties, N-terminal sequences and possible applications of lectins from edible mushrooms. It further aims to update and discuss/examine the recent advancements in the study of these lectins regarding their structures, functions, and exploitable properties. A detailed tabling of all the available data for N-terminal sequences of these lectins is also presented here.
Highlights
Many species of wild mushrooms are appreciated as delicious food
Boa (2004) on wild edible fungi [19], we have identified about 144 lectins from edible mushrooms, 38 lectins from reported poisonous mushrooms, and 30 lectins from mushrooms which can be used as medicine and/or as food
In 1984, during an early part of mushroom lectin research, isolation of a heterodimeric lectin from the edible mushroom Volvariella volvacea encouraged the search for potential agents in lectins from mushrooms for cancer therapy
Summary
Many species of wild mushrooms are appreciated as delicious food. They have found a commendable place in the traditional medicines used in South-East Asian countries [1,2,3]. Edible mushrooms are the fleshy and edible fruit bodies of several species of macrofungi, which bear fruiting structures that are large enough to be seen with the naked eye. We try to highlight the available data from the literature pertaining to the structures, binding specificities and biological functions of lectins from the edible mushrooms (Table 1). These are the basic considerations which prompted us to prepare the present paper which is intended to be a review on lectins from edible mushrooms and the present status with a more updated summary of full or N-terminal amino acid sequences
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