...J.S. van der Hoeven; P.J.M. Camp The ability to utilize mucin oligosaccharides as sources of carbohydrate and energy is believed to be an important mechanism in the ecology of oral streptococci. In this study we have used digoxigenin-labelled lectins of various specificities to monitor changes...

...Dale B. Mirth; Carol J. Miller; Albert Kingman; William H. Bowen Concanavalin A and fucose-binding protein, lectins with a high specificity for binding to D -mannose or D -glucose and L -fucose, respectively, have been found to reversibly bind and inactivate the factor or factors in saliva...