title: Bacterial, fungal, and algal lectins: combatants in tug of war against HIV.
abstract: High-resolution X-ray crystallography and NMR studies by Koharudin and Gronenborn in this issue provide new information on the mode of N-glycan recognition by a cyanobacterial agglutinin, with anti-HIV activity pointing to the pentamannosyl core as a novel target for therapeutic intervention.
authors.affiliation: The Glycosciences Laboratory, Imperial College London, Burlington Danes Building Level 5, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK. t.feizi@imperial.ac.uk
authors.forename: Ten
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Feizi
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Angelina S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Palma