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IMMUNOGLOBULINS, LIGHT-CHAIN

Specialty Definition: IMMUNOGLOBULINS, LIGHT-CHAIN

DomainDefinition

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Polypeptide chains, consisting of 211 to 217 amino acid residues, isolated from immunoglobulins and having a molecular weight of approximately 22 kD. There are two major types of light chains, kappa and lambda. In man they are found in a ratio of 60% to 40%, respectively. Both chains consist of linear repeating, similar, but not identical, segments of about 110 amino acid residues. In each segment a disulfide bond establishes a tightly folded approximately 60-membered loop or domain. Adjacent domains are linked by less tightly folded regions. Both light chains contain two such domains. Two light and two heavy chains make one immunoglobulin molecule, but both light chains in one Ig are of the same type. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: IMMUNOGLOBULINS, LIGHT-CHAIN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 4D 4D 55 4E 4F 47 4C 4F 42 55 4C 49 4E 53 2C      4C 49 47 48 54 2D 43 48 41 49 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01001101 01001101 01010101 01001110 01001111 01000111 01001100 01001111 01000010 01010101 01001100 01001001 01001110 01010011 00101100 00100000 01001100 01001001 01000111 01001000 01010100 00101101 01000011 01001000 01000001 01001001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#77 &#77 &#85 &#78 &#79 &#71 &#76 &#79 &#66 &#85 &#76 &#73 &#78 &#83 &#44 &#32 &#76 &#73 &#71 &#72 &#84 &#45 &#67 &#72 &#65 &#73 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 004D 004D 0055 004E 004F 0047 004C 004F 0042 0055 004C 0049 004E 0053 002C      004C 0049 0047 0048 0054 002D 0043 0048 0041 0049 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4347475548494146493655464348531424643414254153742354348

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INDEX

1. Orthography
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