Lectins: From Basic Science to Application for Glycobiology, Cell Biology, and Medicine
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2018) | Viewed by 27866
Special Issue Editors
Interests: protein engineering; snake venom; lectin; biomineralization
Interests: lectins; glycans, stem cells; regenerative medicine; drug discovery; diagnosis; exosome; cancer stem cells
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our great pleasure to inform you that a Special Issue on “Lectins: From Basic Science to Application for Glycobiology, Cell Biology, and Medicine” will be published in the journal Molecules. Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins, which recognize the specific carbohydrate structures expressed on cells and mediate various physiological and pathological phenomenon through cell-cell and host-pathogen communications. Lectins are useful as research tools for glycomic analysis, and cell identification/separation. They were also demonstrated to be applied as cargo to deliver drugs inside cells, such as stem cells and tumor cells.
In this Special Issue, we focused on lectins from basics to applications for glycobiology, cell biology, and medicine.
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Keywords
- lectin
- carbohydrate
- glycome
- cell recognition
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