1. Cashew-tree (Anacardium occidentale L.) exudate gum: a novel bioligand tool
- Author
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Celio Ribeiro de Salis, Jacira Rabelo Lima, Raquel da Silveira Nogueira Lima, and Renato de Azevedo Moreira
- Subjects
Exudate ,Anacardiaceae ,Biomedical Engineering ,Carbohydrates ,Bioengineering ,Plant Lectins ,Ligands ,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ,Chromatography, Affinity ,Matrix (chemical analysis) ,Affinity chromatography ,Polysaccharides ,Lectins ,Drug Discovery ,medicine ,Chromatography ,biology ,Chemistry ,Plant Extracts ,Process Chemistry and Technology ,Anacardium ,Lectin ,General Medicine ,biology.organism_classification ,Lipids ,Solubility ,visual_art ,Seeds ,visual_art.visual_art_medium ,biology.protein ,Plant Bark ,Molecular Medicine ,Bark ,medicine.symptom ,Rheology ,Biotechnology - Abstract
The potential of bioaffinity as a tool for the study of biological-recognition mechanisms is gaining increasing value. The search continues for alternative products that can be obtained from renewable sources, such as the bark exudate gum from the cashew tree (Anacardium occidentale L.), which grows wild in many tropical and subtropical countries. Its potential use as a chromatographic matrix and/or for bioaffinity ligand for proteins (lectins) has been investigated. The crude gum was cross-linked in order to obtain a kind of chromatographic matrix (gel). To evaluate the gum's ability to retain glycoproteins (lectins), affinity chromatography was performed and, in addition, the reological behaviour of the gum was characterized.
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- 2002