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SUBMITTER: Mishra A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7115788 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association 20190919
Lectins are proteins with a high degree of stereospecificity to recognize various sugar structures and form reversible linkages upon interaction with glyco-conjugate complexes. These are abundantly found in plants, animals and many other species and are known to agglutinate various blood groups of erythrocytes. Further, due to the unique carbohydrate recognition property, lectins have been extensively used in many biological functions that make use of protein-carbohydrate recognition like detect ...[more]