INTRODUCTION IgA is present in normal human serum at about one-fifth of the
concentration of IgG. However, it is catabolized around five times faster than IgG and …

1.1. General Considerations Structural intricacies of carbohydrate molecules and their
propensity to form varied linkages, substitutions, and branching patterns have fascinated …

Circulating immune complexes (CICs) isolated from sera of patients with IgA nephropathy
(IgAN) consist of undergalactosylated, mostly polymeric, and J chain–containing IgA1 and …

Many natural lectins have been reported to have antiviral activity. As some of these have
been put forward as potential development candidates for preventing or treating viral …

This review focusses on affinity purification of immunoglobulins, a methodology which is a
powerful tool to obtain pure and intact antibodies. Affinity techniques allow antibody …

Outlining the fundamental principles by which all interactions occur, this reference focuses
on harnessing the biochemistry of bioorganic compounds in order to separate them …

Galactose-deficient IgA1 in sera of IgA nephropathy patients is present in complexes with
IgG. IgA1 proteins from sera of patients with IgA nephropathy (IgAN) are galactosylated to a …

Jacalin, a tetrameric two-chain lectin (66,000 M r) from jackfruit seeds, is highly specific for
the tumour associated T-antigenic disaccharide. The crystal structure of jacalin with methyl-α …

Lectins including flowering plant lectins, algal lectins, cyanobacterial lectins, actinomycete
lectin, worm lectins, and the nonpeptidic lectin mimics pradimicins and benanomicins …

Increased immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibodies to the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) appear months
to years before the clinical onset of nasopharyngeal carcinoma and define populations at …