"alpha-Macroglobulins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Glycoproteins with a molecular weight of approximately 620,000 to 680,000. Precipitation by electrophoresis is in the alpha region. They include alpha 1-macroglobulins and alpha 2-macroglobulins. These proteins exhibit trypsin-, chymotrypsin-, thrombin-, and plasmin-binding activity and function as hormonal transporters.
| Descriptor ID |
D000511
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.124.050.080 D12.776.124.790.106.100 D12.776.124.790.720.100 D12.776.377.715.085.100 D12.776.377.715.647.100
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| Concept/Terms |
alpha-Macroglobulins- alpha-Macroglobulins
- alpha Macroglobulins
- 45S RNP
- RNP, 45S
- alpha-Macrofetoproteins
- alpha Macrofetoproteins
Slow alpha 2-Macroglobulins- Slow alpha 2-Macroglobulins
- Slow alpha 2 Macroglobulins
- alpha 2-Macroglobulins, Slow
- Slow alpha 2-Globulin
- Slow alpha 2 Globulin
- alpha 2-Globulin, Slow
alpha 1-Acute Phase Protein- alpha 1-Acute Phase Protein
- alpha 1 Acute Phase Protein
- Acute-Phase alpha 1-Protein
- Acute Phase alpha 1 Protein
- alpha 1-Protein, Acute-Phase
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| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "alpha-Macroglobulins" by people in Profiles.
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Sohn DH, Sokolove J, Sharpe O, Erhart JC, Chandra PE, Lahey LJ, Lindstrom TM, Hwang I, Boyer KA, Andriacchi TP, Robinson WH. Plasma proteins present in osteoarthritic synovial fluid can stimulate cytokine production via Toll-like receptor 4. Arthritis Res Ther. 2012 Jan 08; 14(1):R7.
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Solomon KR, Sharma P, Chan M, Morrison PT, Finberg RW. CD109 represents a novel branch of the alpha2-macroglobulin/complement gene family. Gene. 2004 Mar 03; 327(2):171-83.
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Gulati S, Sastry K, Jensenius JC, Rice PA, Ram S. Regulation of the mannan-binding lectin pathway of complement on Neisseria gonorrhoeae by C1-inhibitor and alpha 2-macroglobulin. J Immunol. 2002 Apr 15; 168(8):4078-86.
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Korovaitseva GI, Premkumar S, Grigorenko A, Molyaka Y, Galimbet V, Selezneva N, Gavrilova SI, Farrer LA, Rogaev EI. Alpha-2 macroglobulin gene in early- and late-onset Alzheimer disease. Neurosci Lett. 1999 Aug 20; 271(2):129-31.