Lectins are cell-agglutinating, carbohydrate-binding proteins. They began to generate interest when it was discovered in the 1940s that some of them were capable of specifically agglutinating human erythrocytes. Most lectins ...

Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins that specifically recognize diverse sugar structures and mediate a variety of biological processes such as cell-cell and host-pathogen interactions, serum glycoprotein turnover, ...