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Carbohydrate moiety of immunoglobulins in health and pathology
1Department of Immunochemistry, Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw. krotkiew@immuno.iitd.pan.wroc.pl
Acta Biochimica Polonica
|November 5, 1999
Abstract:
Most of glycoproteins described so far, including immunoglobulins, are glycosylated during post-translational modifications of protein molecules. Current knowledge of the structure of sugar chains in immunoglobulin molecules and their biological role in health and pathology is reviewed.