Abstract: To provide a method of accurately detecting pathological haptoglobin using a lectin having strong affinity and high specificity for fucose. The method of the present invention for detecting pancreatic cancer is characterized in that a fucose ?1?6 specific lectin is allowed to act on pathological haptoglobin contained in a sample obtained from a living body, said lectin: (1) being extractede from basidiomycetes, (2) having a molecular weight of 4,000 to 40,000 as determined by the SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and (3) having affinity for a fucose ?1?6 sugar chain with a binding constant of 1.0×104 M?1 or more at 25° C.

Abstract: To provide a method of accurately detecting pathological haptoglobin using a lectin having strong affinity and high specificity for fucose. The method of the present invention for detecting pancreatic cancer is characterized in that a fucose ?1?6 specific lectin is allowed to act on pathological haptoglobin contained in a sample obtained from a living body, said lectin: (1) being extractede from basidiomycetes, (2) having a molecular weight of 4,000 to 40,000 as determined by the SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and (3) having affinity for a fucose ?1?6 sugar chain with a binding constant of 1.0×104 M?1 or more at 25° C.

Abstract: It is intended to provide a method by which sugar chains having GlcNAc transferred by GnT-V can be accurately detected, screened and purified. In this detection method, two kinds of lectins differing in detailed GlcNAc-specificity are used together. As shown in FIG. 1(I), for example, a sample containing sugar chains having GlcNAc transferred by GnT-V is screened by using a lectin GSL-II, which recognizes sugar chains having GlcNAc transferred by GnT-V, and then the screened sample is screened again by using another lectin BLL, which does not recognizes sugar chains having GlcNAc transferred by GnT-V, to thereby detect, screen and purify the sugar chains having GlcNAc transferred by GnT-V alone.

Abstract: A method for the determination of monosaccharides in a sugar composition by simultaneous quantitative analysis of monosaccharides constituting the sugar composition, comprising the steps of: (1) liberating sialic acid from the sugar composition with sialidase or an acid, (2) converting the released sialic acid into N-acylmannosamine with sialic acid aldolase, and (3) acid hydrolyzing the N-acylmannosamine and a sugar residue. The method allows pretreatment in a single reactor and the sugar composition including sialic acid can be obtained by a single analysis by HPLC, etc.