Investigation of griffithsin's interactions with human cells confirms its outstanding safety and efficacy profile as a microbicide candidate.

Many natural product-derived lectins such as the red algal lectin griffithsin (GRFT) have potent in vitro activity against viruses that display dense clusters of oligomannose N-linked glycans (NLG) on their surface envelope glycoproteins. However, since oligomannose NLG are also found on some host p...

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Main Authors: Joseph Calvin Kouokam, Dana Huskens, Dominique Schols, Andrew Johannemann, Shonna K Riedell, Wendye Walter, Janice M Walker, Nobuyuki Matoba, Barry R O'Keefe, Kenneth E Palmer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3149051?pdf=render