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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 19.
Published in final edited form as: Vaccine. 2012 Jun 19;30(29):4369–4376. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.02.076

Figure 2. Reactivity of human respiratory tissues with lectins specific for different sialic acid linkages.

Figure 2

Res, respiratory bronchiole (adjacent to alveoli); Ter, terminal bronchiole (distal to alveoli); Alv, alveolus. The green shows reaction with Sambucus nigra lectin, which indicates the presence of sialic acid linked to galactose by an α2–6-linkage. The red shows reaction with Maackia amurensis lectin, indicating the presence of sialic acid linked to galactose by an α2–6-linkage. (Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: images reproduced from Shinya et al. 2006 [29])