Use Of Biosensors To Detect And Monitor Chemicals Commonly Used In Agriculture And Terrorist Weapons With The Goal Of Preventing Dangerous Environmental Consequences

Starodub, Nickolaj F.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8960-2_7

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“…Lectin‐based biosensors could be extensively used in many areas, including medical diagnosis, environmental monitoring, and even antiterrorism in the future. Lectin‐based biosensors could facilitate quick characterization of pathogenic bacteria, saving the time of culture and tedious sample preparations required in traditional methods .…”

Section: The Development Of Lectins As Biological Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development and Applications of Lectins as Biological Tools in Biomedical Research

Dan

Liu

2015

Medicinal Research Reviews

109

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As a new and burgeoning area following genomics and proteomics, glycomics has become a hot issue due to its pivotal roles in many physiological and pathological processes. Glycans are much more complicated than genes or proteins since glycans are highly branched and dynamic. Antibodies and lectins are the two major molecular tools applied for glycan profiling. Though the study of antibodies and lectins started at almost the same time in 1880s, lectins gained much less attention than the antibodies until recent decades when the importance and difficulties of glycomics were realized. The present review summarizes the discovery history of lectins and their biological functions with a special emphasis on their various applications as biological tools. Both older techniques that had been developed in the last century and new technologies developed in recent years, especially lectin microarrays and lectin-based biosensors, are included in this account.

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Section: The Development Of Lectins As Biological Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%