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n. Any of several plant proteins that bind to specific carbohydrate groups on proteins or on cell membranes and are used in the laboratory to isolate glycoproteins, to stimulate proliferation of lymphocytes, and to agglutinate red blood cells.

n. Any of a class of plant proteins that bind specific carbohydrates.

n. any of several plant glycoproteins that act like specific antibodies but are not antibodies in that they are not evoked by an antigenic stimulus

"The research published in January's Molecular Immunology, demonstrates that the introduction of the astrovirus shell also shuts down a second major trigger, dubbed the lectin pathway."

glycoprotein   

lectin affinity chromatography    isolectin   

chemokine    cell-death    co-stimulatory    adiponectin    glucocorticoid    melanogaster    muscarinic    integrin    transferrin    immunoglobulin-like