Lectins are plant secondary metabolites (PSM) found in many forages and which may confer anthelmintic properties to gastrointestinal parasites through disrupting the development of parasitic larvae throughout its life cycle. In experiment 1, the ability of the plant lectins jacalin (JAC),
A major problem of using red cells as the solid phase in assay systems is the difficulty to bind them strongly to appropriate surfaces. We report here on a number of lectins of different specificities which were examined for their ability to bind red cells to polystyrene 96-well microtitre plates.
A series of sugar-modified porous silica monoliths with different sugar ligands (β-lactoside, β-N-acetyllactosaminide, β-d-galactoside, β-d-N-acetylgalactosaminide and β-d-glucoside) and linkers were prepared and evaluated using plant toxins and lectins including ricin and a Ricinus communis
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