1. Editorial

   • Harry Schachter

   EditorialNotes Pages: i - i

2. Announcements and news

   Announcement Pages: ii - iii

3. Meeting reports

   • John Gallagher
   • Charlie Archer

   Report Pages: iv - viii

4. Letter to the editor

   • Iain B H Wilson
   • Barry J Hardy

   Glycopinion Pages: ix - ix

5. Importance of lectins for the prevention of bacterial infections and cancer metastases

   • J. Beuth
   • H. L. Ko
   • H. Pichlmaier

   Glycopinion Mini-Review Pages: 1 - 6

6. α₁-Acid glycoprotein binds human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein viaN-linked glycans

   • L. Rabehi
   • F. Ferriere
   • L. Gattegno

   Lectin Papers Pages: 7 - 16

7. Isolation of a melibiose-binding protein from human spleen

   • Ashu Sharma
   • Hafiz Ahmed
   • Howard J. Allen

   Lectin Papers Pages: 17 - 21

8. Lectins and also bacteria modify the glycosylation of gut surface receptors in the rat

   • Arpad Pusztai
   • Stanley W. B. Ewen
   • Susan Bardocz

   Lectin Papers Pages: 22 - 35

9. α1,3-Fucosylation of branched blood group I-type oligo-(N-acetyllactosamino)glycans by human milk transferases is restricted to distalN-acetyllactosamine units: The resulting isomers are separated by WGA-agarose chromatography

   • Ritva Niemelä
   • Jari Natunen
   • Ossi Renkonen

   Lectin Papers Pages: 36 - 44

10. Localization of peanut (Arachis hypogaea) root lectin (PRA II) on root surface and its biological significance

    • Gurpreet Kalsi
    • Cherukuri R. Babu
    • Rakha H. Das

    Lectin Papers Pages: 45 - 50

11. Water-soluble poly(acrylamide-allylamine) derivatives of saccharides for protein-saccharide binding studies

    • J. Klein
    • M. Kraus
    • J. Kocourek

    Lectin Papers Pages: 51 - 54

12. Use of sialylated or sulfated derivatives and acrylamide copolymers of Galβ1,3GalNAcα- and GalNAcα- to determine the specificities of blood group T- and Tn-specific lectins and the copolymers to measure anti-T and anti-Tn antibody levels in cancer patients

    • Yongxin Chen
    • Rakesh K. Jain
    • Khushi L. Matta

    Lectin Papers Pages: 55 - 62

13. Synthesis of an endogeneous lectin, galectin-1, by human endothelial cells is up-regulated by endothelial cell activation

    • Linda G. Baum
    • Jeffrey J. Seilhamer
    • Judith A. Berliner

    Lectin Papers Pages: 63 - 68

14. Strategy for the investigation of O-linked oligosaccharides from mucins based on the separation into neutral, sialic acid- and sulfate-containing species

    • Niclas G. Karlsson
    • Hasse Karlsson
    • Gunnar C. Hansson

    Non-Lectin Papers Pages: 69 - 76

15. The asparagine-linked carbohydrate of honeybee venom hyaluronidase

    • Viktoria Kubelka
    • Friedrich Altmann
    • Leopold März

    Non-Lectin Papers Pages: 77 - 83

16. Kinetic comparison of peptide: N-glycosidases F and A reveals several differences in substrate specificity

    • Friedrich Altmann
    • Stefan Schweiszer
    • Christoph Weber

    Non-Lectin Papers Pages: 84 - 93

17. Characterization of the peptide-N ⁴-(N-acetylglucosaminyl) asparagine amidase (PNGase Se) fromSilene alba cells

    • Sabine Lhernould
    • Yannis Karamanos
    • Henri Morvan

    Non-Lectin Papers Pages: 94 - 98

18. Glycan structure of the S-layer glycoprotein ofBacillus sp. L420-91

    • Paul Kosma
    • Christina Neuninger
    • Paul Messner

    Non-Lectin Papers Pages: 99 - 107