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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Blood Proteins > Acute-Phase Proteins > alpha-Macroglobulins
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... > Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Blood Proteins > Serum Globulins > Macroglobulins > alpha-Macroglobulins
... > Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Globulins > Serum Globulins > Macroglobulins > alpha-Macroglobulins

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alpha-Macroglobulins  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • 45S RNP
  • alpha Macrofetoproteins
  • alpha-Macrofetoproteins
  • RNP, 45S

Scope note

  • Glycoproteins with a molecular weight of approximately 620,000 to 680,000. Precipitation by electrophoresis is in the alpha region. They include alpha 1-macroglobulins and alpha 2-macroglobulins. These proteins exhibit trypsin-, chymotrypsin-, thrombin-, and plasmin-binding activity and function as hormonal transporters.

History note

  • 96; was ALPHA MACROGLOBULINS 1976-95

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000511

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