Glycoconjugates with lectin—gold

Matsuura K, Tsuchida A, Okahata Y, Akaike T, Kobayashi K (1998) A quartz-crystal microbalance study of adsorption behaviors of artificial glycoconjugate polymers onto chemically modified gold surfaces and their interactions with lectins. Bull Chem Soc Jpn 71 2973-2977... 

Lectins, or proteins with specific binding sites for carbohydrates, can be used as targeting molecules to localize particular glycoconjugates such as glycoproteins or glycolipids on cell surfaces (Fig. 373). Labeled with gold particles, lectins are important probes for detection of cell surface components and intracellular receptors and in immunological or biochemical assay procedures (Bog-Hansen et al., 1978 Kimura et al., 1979 Nicolson, 1978 Roth, 1983 Benhamou et al., 1988 Nakajima et al., 1988). 

Schmidt, J. Peters, W. (1987). Localization of glycoconjugates at the tegument of the tapeworms Hymenolepis nana and H. microstoma with gold labelled lectins. Parasitology Research, 73 80-6. 

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