Lectins

This monograph, aimed at graduate students and researchers in biology and related areas, deals with lectins, an exceedingly important class of diverse and widely occurring proteins that bind carbohydrates. They possess the unique ability to decode the information encoded in carbohydrates and thus to act as recognition determinants in diverse biological processes, both normal and pathological. Their study is therefore inextricably linked to glycobiology, a subject now in a stage of explosive growth.