Plant lectins, chemical and biological aspects

Lectins, carbohydrate-binding proteins of non-immune origin, that agglutinate cells or precipitate polysaccharides and glycoconjugates, are well distributed in nature, mainly in the Plant Kingdom. The great majority of the plante lectins are present in seed cotyledons where they are found in the cyt...

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Main Authors: Renato de Azevedo Moreira, Iracema Lima Ainouz, José Tadeu Abreu de Oliveira, Benildo Sousa Cavada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 1991-01-01
Series:Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02761991000600048