Great post!
Yes, this relates back to the lectin info. that I had compiled pre-BT-crash. Lectins really kept my attention for about a year because I was convinced that they had something to do with, at least some people's negative experience, regarding gluten and perhaps some other foods.
Honestly, I ran out of subject matter to study and have been waiting for more to arise. Even dieticians and nutritionists that I asked, those years ago, about lectins looked at me blankly while I gave them a quick review. The only way they seem to recognize 'lectins' is if you talk about them in terms of undercooked kidney bean poisoning.
I couldn't read your link but I did make a point of going to find this... which is probably pretty much the same thing.
The glucosamine reference is also very interesting as I've noted many people with gluten intolerance seem to enjoy a better quality of life if they supplement it. I'm not promoting people to run out and buy it. But I am saying that this abstract also creates another line of follow-up that I'm looking forward to exploring!
And with the connection between tyrosine and depression; and gluten and depression, I wonder if this will help to figure out which antidepressants are 'preferable' or 'preferably avoided' with certain individuals based on food sensitivities!
I hope to see more studies directed that way!
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1991 Feb 14;174(3):1154-8.
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The lectin wheat germ agglutinin induces rapid protein-tyrosine phosphorylation in human platelets.
Department of Biochemistry, Fukui Medical School, Japan.
In response to wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), platelet aggregation and stimulation of protein-tyrosine phosphorylation were observed in a dose dependent manner. These reactions were completely inhibited by coexistence of N-acetyl-D-glucosamine with WGA. Upon stimulation by this agonist, protein-tyrosine phosphorylation of seven bands with molecular masses of 140-, 130-, 80-, 76-, 53-, 38- and 35-kDa proteins was observed by immunoblot. These protein-tyrosine phosphorylations were divided into three groups by kinetics. Considering the previous report from our laboratory that thrombin and collagen induced tyrosine phosphorylation in 135-, 124- and 76-kDa proteins (Nakamura, S. and Yamamura, H. (1989) J. Biol. Chem. 264, 7089-7091.), there may be another signal transduction pathway in tyrosine phosphorylation of human platelets.
PMID: 1996982 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]