Chapter 8
Ability of Diverse Marine Invertebrate Lectins to Regulate Cell Functions
First published: 27 March 2013
Summary
This chapter describes three aspects of marine invertebrate lectins based on glycomic studies of glycan‐binding properties. The first section describes a lectin from the feather star, a close relative of the sea lily, as a molecular device to separate somatic and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells). The second and third sections describe two lectins isolated from Mediterranean mussel and catfish eggs that have identical glycan‐binding properties but completely different primary structures and different regulatory effects on Burkitt's lymphoma cells.
