Plant physiology, carbohydrate chemistry

Although the physiological function of plant and animal lectins is unknown, these ubiquitous carbohydrate-binding (glyco)proteins can recognize and bind to complex carbohydrates as they occur in solution and on membranes and cell surfaces. A series of papers (by Hardman Brewer and Brown Williams and coworkers Thomas and colleagues and Evans and Wang) deal with the fundamental chemistry of lectin... 

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