A recent study posted to the Research Square* preprint server and under consideration at Scientific Reports investigated the impact of a recombinant fragment of cellular glycoprotein ...

Figure 1: Mannose-binding lectin (blue strands) can bind to sites on the SARS-Cov-2 spike protein on the cell membrane. One of the most striking features of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is that across all ...

MIT researchers showed that the lectin intelectin-2 bound bacterial sugars and mucus galactose, strengthening the gut barrier ...

The protein called intelectin-2 plays another important role by reinforcing the protective mucus layer that lines the ...

Fungal lectins are a diverse group of carbohydrate‐binding proteins that play critical roles in mediating cell–cell interactions, host–pathogen recognition and environmental sensing. Increasingly, ...

Chronic liver disease is a major complication of cystic fibrosis (CF) and factors other than the deletion of ΔF508 (which causes CF) may control the development of liver damage. In May Journal of ...

In a recently published article in the journal Cells, scientists have provided a detailed description of the utility of mannose-specific lectins in preventing coronavirus infections. They have ...

Chemists have developed a new tool for detecting interactions between sugars and lectins, a discovery that could help in the fight against diseases like cancer. Scientists at Université de Montréal's ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved Yartemlea ® (narsoplimab-wuug) for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients aged 2 years and older with hematopoietic stem cell transplant ...

The mucosal surfaces that line the body are embedded with defensive molecules that help keep microbes from causing ...