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Identification of a glycophorin-like molecule at the cell surface of rat thymocytes

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There are three predominant glycoproteins in the rat thymocyte plasma membrane. Two of these have carbohydrate compositions that are characteristic of structures N-glycosidically linked to protein. The other glycoprotein is very different, having about 20 O-glycosidically linked carbohydrate units per 100 amino acids. It has similarities to the major sialoglycoprotein of human erythrocytes.

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    Present address: Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK

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  1. MRC Cellular Immunology Unit, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3RE, UK

    William R. A. Brown, A. Neil Barclay, Christopher A. Sunderland & Alan F. Williams

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Brown, W., Barclay, A., Sunderland, C. et al. Identification of a glycophorin-like molecule at the cell surface of rat thymocytes. Nature 289, 456–460 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/289456a0

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