Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several plant proteins or glycoproteins that bind to the sugar molecules of glycoproteins and glucolipids on the surfaces of cells, used to stimulate lymphocyte proliferation and agglutinate red blood cells.
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- noun biochemistry Any of a class of plant
proteins thatbind specificcarbohydrates .
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- noun any of several plant glycoproteins that act like specific antibodies but are not antibodies in that they are not evoked by an antigenic stimulus
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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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.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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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.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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I looks them over sometime for to see if I didn't do sumpin 'for deir figures, in s'lectin' and marryin 'Martha, dat's more important to them than de land I'll leave them when I die.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration
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Kanoy County sence they stopped 'lectin' country fellers fer sheriff.
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"The ability to measure over long time scales opens the possibility to study systems with strong affinity at the single-molecule limit, such as lectin-carbohydrate interactions responsible for cell recognition and adhesion," Hafner said.
Rice Media Articles 2010
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The omitted evidence not only demonstrated that Monsanto's GM soy had significantly lower levels of protein, a fatty acid, and an essential amino acid, their toasted GM soy meal contained nearly twice the amount of a soy lectin, which can interfere with the body's ability to assimilate nutrients.
Jeffrey Smith: Biotech Propaganda Cooks Dangers Out of GM Potatoes 2010
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He knew that the GNA lectin was harmless — not to insects mind you, but to us mammals.
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The two lines were produced at the same time, under the same conditions, using the same GNA lectin transgene.
Jeffrey Smith: Biotech Propaganda Cooks Dangers Out of GM Potatoes 2010
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A potato was outfitted with an assassin gene from the snowdrop plant; the gene produced "GNA lectin," a protein that kills insects.
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