Immunoglobulin alpha-Chains
                             
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            
                            
                                
                                    
                                            
	"Immunoglobulin alpha-Chains" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, 
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				The class of heavy chains found in IMMUNOGLOBULIN A. They have a molecular weight of approximately 58 kDa and contain about 470 amino acid residues arranged in four domains and an oligosaccharide component bound covalently to their Fc fragment constant region.
    
			
			
				
				
					
						| Descriptor ID | D007137 | 
					
						| MeSH Number(s) | D12.776.124.486.485.114.619.026.515 D12.776.124.486.485.705.500.350 D12.776.124.790.651.114.619.026.515 D12.776.124.790.651.705.500.350 D12.776.377.715.548.114.619.026.515 D12.776.377.715.548.705.500.350 | 
					
						| Concept/Terms | Immunoglobulin alpha-ChainsImmunoglobulin alpha-ChainsImmunoglobulin alpha Chainsalpha-Chains, ImmunoglobulinImmunoglobulins, alpha-ChainImmunoglobulins, alpha Chainalpha-Immunoglobulin Heavy ChainsHeavy Chains, alpha-Immunoglobulinalpha Immunoglobulin Heavy ChainsImmunoglobulin alpha-Chainalpha-Chain Immunoglobulinsalpha Chain Immunoglobulinsalpha-Immunoglobulin Heavy ChainHeavy Chain, alpha-Immunoglobulinalpha Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain
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