Hindawi BioMed Research International Volume 2019, Article ID 1341370, 9 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/1341370 Research Article An Inulin-Specific Lectin with Anti-HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase, Antiproliferative, and Mitogenic Activities from theEdibleMushroomAgaricus bitorquis Guo-Qing Zhang ,1 Qing-Jun Chen,2 Jing Hua,1 Zi-Lu Liu,1 Yue Sun,1 Xin Xu,1 Peng Han,1 and He-Xiang Wang 3 Key Laboratory of Urban Agriculture (North China) of Ministry of Agriculture, College of Biological Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Agriculture, Beijing , China Beijing Key Laboratory for Agricultural Application and New Technique, College of Plant Science and Technology, Beijing University of Agriculture, Beijing , China State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology and Department of Microbiology, China Agricultural University, Beijing , China Correspondence should be addressed to He-Xiang Wang;
[email protected] Received 20 December 2018; Accepted 27 February 2019; Published 19 March 2019 Academic Editor: Gail B. Mahady Copyright © 2019 Guo-Qing Zhang et al. Tis is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A novel lectin (ABL) was purifed from the dried fruiting bodies of Agaricus bitorquis. An efcient 3-step purifcation protocol involved two consecutive steps of ion exchange chromatography on Q-Sepharose and SP-Sepharose and gel fltration by FPLC on Superdex 75. ABL is a monomeric protein with the molecular mass of 27.6 kDa, which is diferent from other lectins from genus Agaricus. Its N-terminal amino acid sequence is EYTISIRVYQTNPKGFNRPV which is unique and sharing considerably high similarity of other mushroom lectins.