Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Lectins > Plant Lectins > Wheat Germ Agglutinins
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Plant Proteins > Plant Lectins > Wheat Germ Agglutinins

Preferred term

Wheat Germ Agglutinins  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Agglutinins, Wheat Germ
  • Agglutinin, Wheat Germ
  • Germ Agglutinin, Wheat
  • Germ Lectin, Wheat
  • Lectins, Triticum Vulgare
  • Lectins, Wheat Germ
  • Lectin, Triticum Vulgare
  • Lectin, Wheat Germ
  • Triticum Vulgare Lectin
  • Triticum Vulgare Lectins
  • Vulgare Lectin, Triticum
  • Wheat Germ Agglutinin
  • Wheat Germ Lectin
  • Wheat Germ Lectins

Scope note

  • Lectins purified from the germinating seeds of common wheat (Triticum vulgare); these bind to certain carbohydrate moieties on cell surface glycoproteins and are used to identify certain cell populations and inhibit or promote some immunological or physiological activities. There are at least two isoforms of this lectin.

History note

  • 87

In other languages

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014909

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 6/25/86, last modified 5/27/20