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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Blood Proteins > Acute-Phase Proteins > Haptoglobins
... > Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Blood Proteins > Serum Globulins > Alpha-Globulins > Haptoglobins
... > Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Globulins > Serum Globulins > Alpha-Globulins > Haptoglobins
Carbohydrates > Glycoconjugates > Glycoproteins > Mucoproteins > Haptoglobins
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Glycoproteins > Mucoproteins > Haptoglobins

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Haptoglobins  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Haptoglobin

Note

  • alpha-globulins; acute phase proteins

Scope note

  • Plasma glycoproteins that form a stable complex with hemoglobin to aid the recycling of heme iron. They are encoded in man by a gene on the short arm of chromosome 16.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006242

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