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<p><strong>Lectins</strong> are carbohydrate sugar-binding proteins of non-immune origin that agglutinates cells or glycoproteins which are highly specific for their sugar moieties.</p><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="WIDTH: 182px"><img class="thumbimage" height="259" alt="lateral hemagglutinine" width="180" border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Hemagglutinin_lateral.jpg/180px-Hemagglutinin_lateral.jpg" /><div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify" style="FLOAT: right"><img height="11" alt="" width="15" src="http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clipprecipitates glycoconjugates.png" /></div>lateral hemagglutinine</div></div></div> <p> </p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Etymology</span></h2>
<p>The name ‘lectin’ is derived from the Latin word <em>legere</em>, meaning ‘to select’.</p>