Growing insights into the many roles of glycoconjugates in biorecognition as ligands for
lectins indicates a need to compare plant and animal lectins. Furthermore, the popularity of …

Many wild and cultivated plants accumulate so-called lectins' or agglutinins in their seeds or
vegetative tissues. For the sake of simplicity lectins can be defined as (glyco) proteins which …

Numerous plant species are known to express one or more lectins or proteins containing a
lectin domain, enabling these proteins to select and bind specific carbohydrate structures …

Lectins are proteins with diverse molecular structures that share the ability to recognize and
bind specifically and reversibly to carbohydrate structures without changing the …

Plant lectins are easily available, fairly stable and suitable for many kinds of chemical
modification. Thus, they have become important tools in glycosciences. In the present …

Plant lectins are extensively used as tools and as bioactiveproteins in different areas of
biomedical and biological research. The Handbook of Plant Lectins provides a …

The view on the significance of the presence of glycans in glycoconjugates is undergoing a
paradigmatic change. Initially mostly considered to be rather inert and passive, the concept …

Plant lectins are being studied for over a century. Until a decade ago, most information was
obtained from biochemical, molecular, and structural studies of a reasonably high but still …

Lectins, a class of sugar-binding and cell-agglutinating proteins, are ubiquitous in Nature,
being found in all kinds of organisms, from viruses to humans. This review describes how …

Lectins are clusters of glycoproteins of nonimmune foundation that combine specifically and
reversibly to carbohydrates, mainly the sugar moiety of glycoconjugates, resulting in cell …