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Definition of Glycoproteins
1. glycoprotein [n] - See also: glycoprotein
Medical Definition of Glycoproteins
1. Conjugated proteins containing one or more covalently linked carbohydrate residues. While technically describing conjugates in which the carbohydrate is less than 4 per cent by weight, the term is often used generically to include the mucoproteins and proteoglycans. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glycoproteins
Literary usage of Glycoproteins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1914)
"The glycoproteins are those compound proteins which yield, on cleavage, proteins
and carbohydrate complexes. It is interesting to note that ..."
2. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1913)
"This remark refers more especially to the many substances classed as glycoproteins
and sclero- proteins. It is hoped that the selected references to ..."
3. Commercial Organic Analysis by Alfred Henry Allen, Wm. A. Davis (1913)
"This remark refers more especially to the many substances classed as glycoproteins
and sclero- proteins. It is hoped that the selected references to ..."
4. Principles of Human Nutrition: A Study in Practical Dietetics by Whitman Howard Jordan (1912)
"The best-known glycoproteins are the mucins that are secreted, for instance, by
the mucous membranes of the air passages and of the alimentary canal and by ..."
5. An Intermediate Textbook of Physiological Chemistry with Experiments by Chauncey John Vallette Pettibone (1917)
"glycoproteins and many phosphoproteins also are precipitated by acetic acid and
dissolve in dilute alkalies. From the above experiments, devise a way to ..."
6. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"Of the six PAS bands of sheep erythrocyte glycoproteins, only PAS 2 adsorbed to
... The glycoproteins extracted from membranes of rhesus monkey erythrocytes ..."
7. Nutrition and Clinical Dietetics by Herbert Swift Carter, Paul Edward Howe, Howard Harris Mason (1921)
"(&) glycoproteins.—Compounds of the protein molecule with a substance or substances
containing a carbohydrate group other than a nucleic acid, eg, ..."
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