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Review
. 2020 Aug 27;6(8):e04623.
doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04623. eCollection 2020 Aug.

An overview on human serum lectins

S Beulaja Manikandan  1 , R Manikandan  2 , M Arumugam  2 , P Mullainadhan  2
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Review

An overview on human serum lectins

S Beulaja Manikandan et al. Heliyon. .

Abstract

An extensive literature survey done on the various naturally occurring lectins in human serum upon its salient features such as methods of detection, level and sites of synthesis, binding specificity, cation dependency, modes of isolation, molecular and functional characterization way back from 1930s to till date was presented in a tabulated section. In addition, the generation of lectin and other immune molecules in vertebrates upon treatment with exogenous elicitors has also been framed in a tabular form. Furthermore, ANEW lectin induced in human serum for the very first time by an exogenous elicitor was detected, isolated and characterized by us whose features are also tabulated explicitly.

Keywords: Biochemistry; Detection; Function; Human serum; Isolation; Lectin; Molecular characteristics.

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