If you lurk on social media long enough, you’re bound to find a post that warns you off eating foods high in lectins. Now, while lectins are often disparaged as “anti-nutrients” and may sound vaguely ...

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A couple years back, Kelly Clarkson credited the Gundry diet with her weight loss and it became one of the top trending diets of the year. But what exactly is the Dr. Gundry diet—and what do experts ...

Fungal lectins are a diverse group of carbohydrate‐binding proteins that play critical roles in mediating cell–cell interactions, host–pathogen recognition and environmental sensing. Increasingly, ...

C-type lectin receptors (CLRs) play central roles in immune recognition, engaging diverse endogenous and exogenous ligands through their C-type lectin-like ...

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The mucosal surfaces that line the body are embedded with defensive molecules that help keep microbes from causing inflammation and infections. Among these molecules are lectins—proteins that ...

Anti-HIV lectins represent a promising class of naturally derived biomolecules that interrupt early stages of HIV infection through targeted carbohydrate recognition. These lectins bind selectively to ...