Lectin Sentence Examples

The potatoes were genetically modified to include a toxin - GNA lectin - found in snowdrops to make them resistant to potato aphids.

This precaution is necessary because wheatgerm contains lectin, which can potentially cause red blood cells to clump.

Pusztai and his coworkers created GM potatoes expressing a snowdrop lectin (GNA) to increase resistance to insects and nematodes.

Project researchers isolated and characterized two cDNAs encoding the lectin.

This is because kidney beans contain a natural toxin (called lectin) that can cause stomach aches and vomiting.

In fact, Pusztai used a snowdrop lectin proven in peer-reviewed research to be harmless to mammals in its natural non-GM form.

These tables allow ready comparison of the differences between rats fed diets containing foreign lectin and the appropriate controls.

Effect of diets containing genetically modified potatoes expressing Galanthus nivalis lectin on rat small intestine.

C-type lectin receptors involved in diverse processes following ligand recognition.

Worse yet, rats fed plain potatoes sprinkled with snowdrop lectin did not show these effects.

If so, would these bind with tsetse fly lectin?

Moreover, the gene introduced into the potatoes was a snowdrop flower lectin, a substance known to be toxic to mammals.