The Use of Lectins Agglutinins to Study Cell Surfaces

 

Ingrith Deyrup-Olsen

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 1983, Volume 4

Abstract

Using lectins, proteins which combine specifically with carbohydrate molecules or groups, this activity will introduce the students to the many important roles that the cell membrane serves in biological processes.

Keywords:  protein, cell membrane, carbohydrate, tissue formation, cell-cell interactions

University of Washington (1982)