Bacterial, Fungal, and Algal Lectins: Combatants in Tug of War against HIV

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