An experimental observation on se lectin g binding partners underlies the introduction of the
term 'lectin'. Agglutination of erythrocytes depending on their blood-group status revealed …

One route of realizing the information of glycans involves endogenous receptors (lectins).
Occurrence at branch ends renders galactosides particularly accessible. Thus, they are …

Having identified glycans of cellular glycoconjugates as versatile molecular messages, their
recognition by sugar receptors (lectins) is a fundamental mechanism within the flow of …

Among members of the family of adhesion/growth-regulatory galectins, galectin-3 (Gal-3)
bears a unique modular architecture. A N-terminal tail (NT) consisting of the N-terminal …

Inflammatory chemo-and cytokines and matrix-degrading proteases underlie the
progression of osteoarthritis (OA). Aiming to define upstream regulators for these disease …

About 60 years ago, the efforts to identify blood group-specific haemagglutinins in plant
extracts by broad-scale testing were beginning to make a large panel of these proteins …

The delineation of the physiological significance of protein (lectin)–glycan recognition and
the structural analysis of individual lectins have directed our attention to studying them in …

Galectins are a family of carbohydrate-binding proteins found in vertebrates in great
abundance and diversity in terms of both structure and ligand-binding properties as well as …

The emerging multifunctionality of galectins by specific protein-glycan/protein interactions
explains the interest to determine their expression during embryogenesis. Complete network …

The highly ordered multilayered organization of the adult chicken retina is a suitable test
model for examining zonal distribution of the members of a bioeffector family. Based on the …