Lectins: a brief review / Lectinas: Una revisión breve
Vitae (Medellín)
; 22(1): 9-11, 2015. Ilustraciones
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| LILACS, COLNAL
| ID: biblio-987725
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ABSTRACT
The ability of plant agglutinins to distinguish between erythrocytes of different blood types led Boyd and Shapleigh (1954) to propose for them the name lectins, from the Latin "legere", to pick out or choose [1]. This term was later generalized to embrace all sugar-specific agglutinins of non-immune origin, irrespective of source and blood type specificity [2]. It was toward the end of the 19th century that evidence first started to accumulate for the presence in nature of proteins possessing the ability to agglutinate erythrocytes. Such proteins were referred to as hemagglutinins, or phytoagglutinins, because they were originally found in extracts of plants
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LILACS
Asunto principal:
Lectinas
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Vitae (Medellín)
Asunto de la revista:
FARMACIA
/
QUIMICA
Año:
2015
Tipo del documento:
Article