C-reactive protein (CRP), 9.5 salpha1-glycoprotein and C1q: serum proteins with lectin properties?

Abstract

The human serum proteins C-reactive protein (CRP), the 9.5 Salpha1-glycoprotein and C1q show, when tested in the agar gel diffusion under certain buffer conditions, strong precipitin reactions with polysaccharides of the galactan type, indicating that they may have lectin-like recognition sites.