New lectins from aspergilli and their carbohydrate specificity

Biologia (Poland)

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 15-23

  Singh, Ram S ^a   Kaur, Hemant P ^a   Singh, Jatinder ^b  

^a PUNJABI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Aspergillus; carbohydrate specificity; haemagglutination; lectin; lectin characterization; partial purification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887572667     PISSN: 00063088     EISSN: 13369563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11756-013-0293-0     Document Type: Article

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