Proceedings of IUB Symposium No. 144, The Seventh International Lectin Meeting Bruxelles, Belgium, August 1823, 1985

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Part 1. Biosynthesis and Physiology of Plant Lectins -- The Physiological Function of Plant Lectins -- Pea Lectin Binding Activity of Pea Root Extracts -- Soybean Lectin and the Interaction of Rhizobium with cultured Soybean Cells -- Gramineae Lectins: A Special Class of Plant Lectins -- Rice, Germ Lectin: Localization, Development and Cell-aggregation -- Interaction of Leguminous Seed Lectins with Seed Proteins-Lectins as Packing Aids of Storage Proteins -- Microcalorimetric Effects of Lectin Interactions -- Lectin Release from Seeds of Datura Stramonium and Interference of the Datura Stramonium Lectin with Bacterial Motility -- Are Mistletoe Lectins Storage Proteins? -- Pattern of Wheat Germ Agglutinin Accumulation in Different Genotypes of Wheat -- Part 2. Isolation and Characterization of Plant Lectins -- Studies on Lectins from Indian Plants -- Screening for Lectins in Common Foods by Line-Dive Immunoelectrophoresis and by Haemadsorption Lectin Test -- Three Sperm-Agglutinating Isolectins from the Tubers of Taro (Colocasia esculenta) -- A Meliboise/Mannose-Specific Lectin from Snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis) Bulbs -- Purification and Characterization of an Alpha-D-Galactosyl-Binding Lectin from the Seeds of Jackfruit (Artocarpus intergrifolia) -- Purification of Ulex europeus Haemagglutinin I by affinity Chromatography -- Haemagglutinins in Marine Algae-Lectins or Phenols? -- The Sugar Specificity of Machaerocereus eruca Isolectins -- Isolation and Characterization of the Lectins from Sub-species of Codium fragile -- Vicia Faba Alpha-Galactosidases with Lectin Activity -- The derived Amino Acid Sequence of the Seed Lectin present in the Pinto U1 111 Cultivar of Phaseolus vulgaris and a Comparison with PHA-E and PHA-L -- Tyrosine Residues and the Binding Sites of Lectins -- Molecular Structure of Lathyrus Lectins and Isolectins -- Part 3. Animal Lectins -- Mammalian Lectins and their Function - A Review -- A Galactose-Specific Lectin also on Endothelial Cells of Rat Livers -- Adult Rat Brain Extract Induces Lactose-Inhibitable Aggregation of Dissociated Embryonic Mouse Brain Cells -- The Calactose Receptor of Rat Peritoneal Macrophages: Binding of Sialidase-Treated Cells and Glycoproteins -- Liver Lectins as Receptors for Tumor Cells in Metastasis -- Lectin in Carcinoma Cells: Level Reduction as Possible Regulatory Event in Tumor Growth and Colonization -- Isolation and Partial Characterization of N-Acetyl-Hexosamine Specific Lectin in the Mucus of Archachatina (Calactina) marginata -- Cold Agglutinin from Achatina fulica Snails having Specificity towards N-Acetyllactosamine -- Fish Cortical Vesicle Lectins. A new Group of Carabohydrate-binding Proteins -- Affinity of Soluble and Immobilized Plasma Fibronectin for Arginyl Sulfamide Polystyrene Beads -- Part 4. Microbial Lectins -- The Fimbrial Lectins of E. Coli -- Lectin-Mediated Adherence of Actinomyces in the Oral Cavity -- Isolation, Purification and Specificity of the Lectin from Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Bacteria (Habs Stain H8) -- Part 5. Biological Effects of Lectins -- The Biological Effects of Lectins in the Diet of Animals and Man -- Application of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Lectin (PA- I) for Cancer Research -- Adoptive Transfer of Experimantal Allergic Encephalomyelitis with Lectin-Activated Spleen Cells -- Factor Dependent Concanavalin A Activation of B Lymphocytes -- Blocking and Stimulation of Pokeweed Mitogen-lnduced Blastogenisis by Anti-Pokeweed Antiserum -- A High Molecular Weight Mitogenic Factor in Culture supernatant Fluids of Pokeweed Mitogen-Stimulated Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells -- Morphological Studies of the Interaction of Human White Blood Cells with Mistletoe Lectin I -- Mitogenicity of A-Chain of Mistletoe Lectin I -- Dolichos lablab Agglutinin: A Potent T Lymphocyte Mitogen and a High Interleukin-2 Promoter -- Activated PNA+ Peripheral Immunocytes in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases -- The Con A