Journal de glycobiologie
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Lectin and Its Function

Anitha Reddy

Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins that are profoundly particular for sugar bunches that are portion of other particles and so cause agglutination of specific cells or precipitation of glycoconjugates and polysaccharides. Lectins have a part in acknowledgment on the cellular and atomic level and play various parts in natural acknowledgment marvels including cells, carbohydrates, and proteins. Lectins too intervene connection and authoritative of microscopic organisms, infections, and organisms to their aiming targets.