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Metabolic Glycoengineering of Sialic Acid Using N-acyl-modified Mannosamines
Published on: November 25, 2017
Polymorphic variation in the amount of sialic acid attached to bovine transferrin
Abstract:
In this paper family studies are presented which support the hypothesis of polymorphism in the process controlling sialic acid binding to bovine transferrin which modifies its phenotype as seen in starch gel electrophoresis. It has been shown that this polymorphism is controlled by locus Tfs with two alleles Tfs A and Tfs a. Tfs a/a animals have the abnormal phenotype with the two faster bands of the four bands of a normal transferrin allele being virtually absent. Tfs A/a and Tfs A/A are phenotypically normal. Limited evidence is presented which suggests that the Tf and Tfs loci are not linked.
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