snaclec

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snaclec (plural snaclecs)

  1. (biochemistry) A lectin, typically in snake venom, that binds carbohydrate.
    • 2013, Blanca Hernández-Ledesma, Chia-Chien Hsieh, Bioactive Food Peptides in Health and Disease, page 226:
      Snaclecs have a basic heterodimeric structure with two subunits, nearly always linked covalently, via a disulphide bond.

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