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Potential pharmacological applications of lectins
(Atena Editora, 2020) Cruz, Joelton Igor Oliveira da; Rabêlo, Luciana Maria Araújo; França, Anderson Felipe Jácome de; Veras, Bruno Oliveira de; Santos, Yago Queiroz dos; Moura, Geovanna Maria de Medeiros; Marques Neto, Antônio Moreira; Lima, Rayana Vanessa da Costa; Carelli, Gabriella Silva Campos
The word lectin is derived from the Latin legere which means “to choose” or “to select” and was introduced in biochemistry in the second half of the 20th century. Such molecules are characterized as glycoproteins that generally do not have an enzymatic role while have at least one non-catalytic domain − lectins are reversibly and specifically associated with simple and complex carbohydrates. Lectins differ from all other proteins through this type of connection with carbohydrates, promoting the ability to agglutinate cells through interaction with specific glycids having a non-immune origin. The present work aims to review the specialized literature in order to list the potential pharmacological applications derived from lectin-carbohydrate specificity in its most varied approaches