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Placental Cell Expression of HLA-G2 Isoforms Is Limited to the Invasive Trophoblast Phenotype
1 Dec 2003
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The HLA-G message is alternatively spliced into multiple transcripts, two of which encode soluble isoforms. To initiate studies on the specific functions of the soluble isoforms, we produced soluble rHLA-G1 (rsG1) and rsG2 in human embryonic kidney 293 cells and characterized the proteins. Both isoforms were glycosylated and formed disulfide-bonded oligomers. Recombinant sG1 associated with beta(2)-microglobulin,...
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