Lectins

History of Plant Lectin Research.- Fungal Lectins a Growing Family.- The "White Kidney Bean Incident" in Japan.- Hemagglutination (Inhibition) Assay.- Preparation of Affinity Adsorbents and Purification of Lectins from Natural Sources.- High-Performance Lectin Affinity Chromatography.- Determination of Glycan Motifs Using Serial Lectin Affinity Chromatography.- Lectin-Probed Western Blot Analysis.- Solid-Phase Assay of Lectin Activity Using HRP-conjugated Glycoproteins.- Sialidase-dependent Binding Assay for Influenza and Related Viruses.- Lectin Affinity Electrophoresis.- Capillary-Based Lectin Affinity Electrophoresis for Interaction Analysis between Lectins and Glycans.- Basic Procedures for Lectin Flow Cytometry.- Histochemical Staining Using Lectin Probes.- Equilibrium Dialysis using Chromophoric Sugar Derivatives.- Centrifugal Ultrafiltration-HPLC Method for Interaction Analysis between Lectins and Sugars.- Surface Plasmon Resonance as a Tool to Characterize Lectin-carbohydrate Interactions.- Isothermal Calorimetric Analysis of Lectin-sugar Interaction.- Carbohydrate-Lectin Interaction Assay by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy Using Fluorescence-Labeled Glycosylasparagines.- Lectin-Based Glycomics: How and When Was the Technology Born?.- Frontal Affinity Chromatography (FAC): Theory and Basic Aspects.- Advanced FAC with a Library of Fluorescent-Labeled Oligosaccharides.- Differential Glycan Analysis of an Endogenous Glycoprotein: Toward Clinical Implementation. From Sample Pretreatment to Data Standardization.- Lectin-Microarray Technique for Glycomic Profiling of Fungal Cell Surfaces.- Application of Lectin Microarray to Bacteria Including Lactobacillus casei Shirota.- Live C.