Metazoan Soluble β-Galactoside-Binding Lectins, Galectins: Methods for Purification, Characterization of Their Carbohydrate-Binding Specificity, and Probing Their Ligands.

Guillaume St-Pierre, Ann Rancourt, Sachiko Sato

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2020

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Galectins are a family of soluble β-galactoside-binding proteins that share conserved carbohydrate recognition domain. Galectins are found in most multicellular organisms and exert various biological functions by binding to the surface glycoconjugates as lectins. In this chapter, we describe the general methods of purification of galectins, quality control of purified galectins, some example methods of evaluating their carbohydrate-binding activity, and use of galectin to search or detect galectin ligands as well as a series of precautions for the usage of galectins.

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Guillaume St-Pierre, Ann Rancourt, Sachiko Sato. Metazoan Soluble β-Galactoside-Binding Lectins, Galectins: Methods for Purification, Characterization of Their Carbohydrate-Binding Specificity, and Probing Their Ligands. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2020;2132:39-54