Zoa was first isolated from Z. officinale, which belongs to Zingiberaceae family.The full-length cDNA of zoa was 768bp with an opening reading frame of 510bp encoding a protein with 169 amino acids.
首次植物中克隆了凝集素 zoa, 凝集素的全长为768bp, 含有一个510bp的开放阅读框,编码169个氨。