Table 1.

List of lectins with their common abbreviations, source, preferred carbohydrate specificity and molecular weight [17,31,36,38].

Lectin from	Abbr.	S	Carbohydrate specificity	Mw
Aleuria aurantia	AAL	A	α-L-Fuc	72
Anguilla anguilla	AAA	F	α-L-Fuc	50
Aspergillus oryzae	AOL	MO	α-1,6Fuc	n/a
Concanavalin A	Con A	P	α-D-Man, α-D-Glc; branched N-linked hexa-saccharide	104
Datura stramonium	DSL/DSA	P	GlcNAcβ-1,4GlcNAc	86
Dolichos biflorus	DBA	P	GalNAc α or β-1,3Gal	111
Erythrina cristagalli	ECL/ECA	P	Galβ-1,4GlcNAc	54
Euonymus europaeus	EEL	P	Galα-3Gal	140
Galanthus nivalis	GNL	P	α-D-Man	50
Griffonia simplicifolia I	GSL-I	P	Galα -1,3Gal	114
Griffonia simplicifolia II	GSL-II	P	α or β-GlcNAc	113
Jacalin	Jacalin (AIL)	P	Galβ-1,3GalNAc	66
Lens culinaris/Lentil lectin	LCA	P	α-D-Man, α-D-Glc	50
Lotus tetragonolobus	LTA/LTL	P	Fucα-1,2Galβ	107
Maackia amurensis I	MAA/MAL	P	α-2,3Neu5Ac	130
Narcissus pseudonarcissus	NPA/NPL	P	α-D-Man	59
Phaseolus vulgaris	E-PHA	P	N-linked bi-antennary	126
Phaseolus vulgaris	L-PHA	P	Branched β-1,6GlcNAc; N-linked tri/tetra-antennary	126
Peanut agglutinin	PNA	P	Galβ-1,3GalNAc	110
Ricunus communis I	RCA-I	P	β-D-Gal	120
Ricinus communis II	RCA-II	P	Galβ-1,4GalNAc	60
Sambucus nigra	SNA-I	P	Neu5Acα-2,6Gal/ GalNAc	140
Soybean agglutinin	SBA	P	α or β-Gal; α or β-GalNAc	120
Ulex europaeus I	UEA-I	P	Fucα-1,2Gal	63
Ulex europaues II	UEA-II	P	GlcNAcβ-1,4GlcNAc	63
Vicia villosa	VVL/VVA	P	α-D-GalNAc	144
Wheat Germ	WGA	P	β-D-GlcNAc, Neu5Ac	36

S: source, M_w: molecular weight in kDa, A: animal, F: fungi, MO: microorganism, P: plant, Fuc: fucose, Gal: galactose, GalNAc: N-acetylgalactosamine, Glc: glucose, GlcNAc: N-acetylglucosamine, Man: mannose, Neu5Ac: N-acetylneuraminic acid (sialic acid)