Animal Lectins Properties and Biomedical Applications by David C Kilpatrick
This comprehensive yet concise guide to animal lectins, covers all sources from unicellular protozoa and slime moulds through invertebrates to mammals and birds, and provides essential information to the widest possible readership.
Handbook of Animal Lectins is divided into two parts, providing a compendium of galectins, collectins, selectins, pentraxins and other carbohydrate-binding proteins from throughout the animal kingdom.
The first part introduces animal lectins on both phylogenetic and structural bases and outlines their key biomedical applications. The second, and major part, is a quick reference alphabetical directory listing around 170 lectins. Each lectin entry provides, where known, details of its:
A bibliography for each lectin is also included and useful appendices list lectins according to their sugar specificity, characterised lectins of human origin by tissue source and
commercial suppliers of animal lectins.
Contents
Definition of a lectin
Lectins from slime moulds, protozoa and sponges
S-type (galectins)
Blood grouping reagents
Appendices
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