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The Lectin-free diet (also known as the Plant Paradox diet) is a fad diet promoted with the false claim that avoiding all foods that contain high amounts of lectins will prevent and cure disease. [1] There is no clinical evidence the lectin-free diet is effective to treat any disease and its claims have been criticized as pseudoscientific .
Table of the major plant lectins [4] Lectin Symbol Lectin name Source Ligand motif Mannose-binding lectins; ConA: Concanavalin A: Canavalia ensiformis: α-D-mannosyl and α-D-glucosyl residues . branched α-mannosidic structures (high α-mannose type, or hybrid type and biantennary complex type N-Glycans) LCH: Lentil lectin: Lens culinaris
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Wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) is a lectin that protects wheat from insects, yeast and bacteria. An agglutinin protein, it binds to N-acetyl-D-glucosamine and sialic acid . [ 1 ] WGA has also been shown to interact with sialic acid residues on oligosaccharides. [ 2 ]
In molecular biology, the leguminous lectin family is a family of lectin proteins. It is one of the largest lectin families with more than 70 lectins reported in a review in 1990. [ 1 ] Leguminous lectins consist of two or four subunits , each containing one carbohydrate-binding site.
In medicine these proteins are useful and are used as a mitogen to trigger T-lymphocyte cell division and to activate latent HIV-1 from human peripheral lymphocytes.In neuroscience, anterograde tracing is a research method that uses the protein product phytohaemagglutinin PHA-L as a molecular tracer that can be taken up by the cell and transported across the synapse into the next cell thereby ...