Meanings
plural snaclecs
- biochemistryA lectin, typically in snake venom, that binds carbohydrate.
Snaclecs have a basic heterodimeric structure with two subunits, nearly always linked covalently, via a disulphide bond.
2013, Blanca Hernández-Ledesma, Chia-Chien Hsieh, Bioactive Food Peptides in Health and Disease, page 226
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