Lectins properties

Liener, I.E., Sharon, N., and Goldstein, I.J., The Lectins Properties, Eunctions and Applications in Biology and Medicine, Academic Press, London, U.K., 1986. 

It has not been clearly established whether extensin is a lectin, but such a lectin property might allow this glycoprotein to bind noncova-lently to polysaccharides within the primary-wall structure. 

D. C. Kilpatrick, Handbook of Animal Lectins Properties and Biomedical Applications, Wiley, Chichester, 2000. 

Van Damme, E.J.M., Peumans, J., Pusztai, A., and Bardocz, S., Handbook of Plant Lectins Properties and Biomedical Applications, Wiley Sons, Chichester, U.K., 1998. 

Lis, H. and Sharon, N. (1986), The lectins, properties, functions and applications in biology aitd medicine, p. 266, Academic Press, New York. 

IJ Goldstein, RD Poretz. In IE Liener, N Sharon, IJ Goldstein, eds. The Lectins Properties, Functions and Applications in Biology and Medicine. New York Academic... 

In the late 1800s, Stillmark4 discovered that the beans of the castor plant contained a toxic protein, which he named ricin. He discovered that ricin caused agglutination of erythrocytes and precipitation of serum proteins. (The lectin properties of ricin and abrin [a closely related toxin from the bean of Abrus precatorius] and their use as tools for research were described in 1972 by Sharon and Lis.5)... 

The B-chain has lectin properties that allow it to bind to complex galactosides of cell-surface carbohydrates, while the A-chain has enzymatic activity. Binding of the B-chain to glycoside residues on glycoproteins and glycolipids appears to trigger en-docytotic uptake of the protein. Internalization of the toxin occurs, primarily via uncoated pits,3031 within a few hours the dissociation rate of ricin for I-------- -----------------------------------------1... 

Lit. Franz (ed.), Advances in Lectin Research (5 vols.), Berlin Springer 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, Wiesb en Ullstein Medical 1992 Sharon and Lis, Lectins, London Chapman Hall 1989 Van Damme et al.. Handbook of Plant Lectins Properties and Biomedical Applications, New York Wiley 1998. 

Etzler, M. E., Distribution and function of plant lectins, in The Lectins. Properties, Functions, and Applications in Biology and Medicine (I. E. Liener, N. Sharon, and I. J. Goldstein, eds.), 371-435, Academic Press, New York, 1986. 

E. J. M. Van Damme, W. J. Peumans, A. Psusztai, and S. Bardocz, Handbook of Plant Lectins Properties and Biomedical Applications, John Wiley Sons, Inc., New York,... 

Zimmer, G., Suguri, T., Reuter, G., Yu, R. K., and Schauer, R., 1994, Modification of sialic acids by 9-0-acetylation is detected in human leucocytes using the lectin property of influenza C vims, Glycobiology 4 343-349. 

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