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. 1981 May 1;195(2):525–528. doi: 10.1042/bj1950525

Demonstration of five major glycoproteins in myelin and myelin subfractions.

E E Mena, B W Moore, S Hagen, H C Agrawal
PMCID: PMC1162919  PMID: 7316970

Abstract

Myelin was found to contain five major glycoproteins with molecular weights of 120000, 95000, 88000, 43000 and 38000. Light myelin contained only 5-7% of the amount of these glycoproteins in whole myelin, whereas heavy myelin and the membrane fraction contained amounts nearly identical with whole myelin. Since all the major and minor glycoproteins, with the exception of 120000-mol-wt. glycoprotein, were detected only after treating the myelin membrane with neuraminidase, N-acetylneuraminic acid is a terminal sugar residue in these glycoproteins.

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