
This is the second edition of our little red book Lectins published in 1989. In the intervening years well over 10,000 articles have appeared with lectins as the main subject, and more than twice as many in which they were touched upon, as well as around 20 books. In particular,...

1 Introduction.- 2 History.- 3 Occurrence and isolation.- 4 Biological activities.- 5 Carbohydrate specificity.- 6 Molecular properties.- 7 Three dimensional structures.- 8 Biosynthesis.- 9 Applications.- 10 Lectin resistant cells.- 11 Functions in nature.- 12 Epilogue.

