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Protein glycosylation: chaperone mutation in Tn syndrome.
Nature - 27 Oct 2005
Ju Tongzhong, Cummings Richard D
Abstract excerpt
Tn syndrome is a rare autoimmune disease in which subpopulations of blood cells in all lineages carry an incompletely glycosylated membrane glycoprotein, known as the Tn antigen. This truncated antigen has the sugar N-acetylgalactosamine alpha-linked to either a serine or threonine amino-acid residue, whereas the correct T antigen has an additional terminal galactose; the defect may be due to a malfunction of the...
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