Plant Lectins

by A. Pusztai

Book Overview

This volume surveys the chemistry, biochemistry, biosynthesis, metabolism, and pharmacological properties of lectins. After a chemically orientated first chapter dealing with specificity and a second chapter on structure, in the rest of the book lectins are looked at from a biological point of view. Their involvement in metabolism and biosynthesis, the distribution and localization in plant tissues and their role in interactions with the outside world...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521063205
• ISBN13: 9780521063203
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"