Lectins: a brief review / Lectinas: Una revisión breve
Vitae (Medellín)
;
22(1): 9-11, 2015. Ilustraciones
Artículo
en Inglés
| LILACS, COLNAL
| ID: biblio-987725
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 (Américas)
Asunto principal:
Lectinas
Límite:
Humanos
Idioma:
Inglés
Revista:
Vitae (Medellín)
Asunto de la revista:
Farmacia
/
Química
Año:
2015
Tipo del documento:
Artículo
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos
Institución/País de afiliación:
Baylor Institute for Immunology Research/US
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