The legume lectins are a large family of homologous carbohydrate binding proteins that are
found mainly in the seeds of most legume plants. Despite their strong similarity on the level …

The occurrence in nature of proteins with hemagglutinating activity that in later years were
shown to be sugar-specific and eventually named lectins has been known since the turn of …

This is the second edition of our little red book Lectins published in 1989. In the intervening
years well over 10,000 articles have appeared with lectins as the main subject, and more …

A number of poorly characterized genetic modifiers contribute to the extensive variability of
von Willebrand disease, the most prevalent bleeding disorder in humans. We find that a …

The pioneering studies of Irvin Liener on soybean agglutinin (SBA) in the early 1950s
served as the starting point of our involvement in lectin research during the past four …

The seed lectin (DBL) from the leguminous plant Dolichos biflorus has a unique specificity
among the members of the legume lectin family because of its high preference for GalNAc …

Abstract 1 Different carbohydrate-specific proteins, such as lectins, may combine with the
same monosaccharide or oligosaccharide by different H-bonding and hydrophobic side …

Glycan chains on glycoconjugates traversing the Golgi apparatus are often terminated by
sialic acid residues, which can also be 9-O-acetylated. This process involves competition …

The structures of the Erythrina corallodendron lectin (EcorL) and of its complexes with
galactose, N-acetylgalactosamine, lactose and N-acetyllactosamine were determined at a …

Previous studies on the carbohydrate specificities of Erythrina cristagalli lectin (ECL) were
mainly limited to analyzing the binding of oligo-antennary Galβ1→ 4GlcNAc (II). In this …