Lectins are a large group of proteins found in animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria that
recognize specific carbohydrate targets and play an important role in cell recognition and
communication, host-pathogen interactions, embryogenesis, and tissue development.
Recently, lectins have emerged as important biomedical tools that have been used in the
development of immunomodulatory, antipathogenic, and anticancer agents. Several lectins
have been shown to have the ability to discriminate between normal cells and tumor cells as …