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Altered glycosylation of human chorionic gonadotropin decreases its hormonal activity as determined by cyclic-adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate production in MA-10 cells.
Glycobiology - 1 Sept 1990
Amano J, Nishimura R, Sato S, Kobata A
Abstract excerpt
Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) purified from pooled urine of normal pregnant women contains four asparagine-linked sugar chains and four mucin-type sugar chains. The structures of asparagine-linked sugar chains of this hormone are constant and site-specific. hCGs obtained from the urine of patients with invasive mole or choriocarcinoma have quite different sets of oligosaccharides although the primary...
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