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Thyroglobulin From Molecular and Cellular Biology to Clinical Endocrinology.
Endocrine reviews - 1 Feb 2016
Di Jeso Bruno, Arvan Peter
Abstract excerpt
Thyroglobulin (Tg) is a vertebrate secretory protein synthesized in the thyrocyte endoplasmic reticulum (ER), where it acquires N-linked glycosylation and conformational maturation (including formation of many disulfide bonds), leading to homodimerization. Its primary functions include iodide storage and thyroid hormonogenesis. Tg consists largely of repeating domains, and many tyrosyl residues in these domains...
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