LGALS3 and influenza: A previous report studying protein–carbohydrate interactions indicated that sialylated and desialylated multivalent glycoligands could selectively bind, with high affinity, to influenza HA and human Gal-3, respectively, and suggested that the synthetic multivalent glycoligands could efficiently inhibit the attachment of Gal-3 to influenza-susceptible cell lines [43].