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EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN

Heavily glycosylated membrane glycoprotein. Encoded by the MUC 1 gene, has a molecular weight of near 300 kD, more than half of which is O linked glycan. There is a 69 residue cytoplasmic domain and the extracellular domain may extend hundreds of nanometres beyond the plasma membrane, the heighten expression in carcinoma cells may reduce the adhesion and mask antigenic properties of the cells. Similar functions are ascribed to ASGP, epiglycanin and leucosialin. This entry appears with alow from the Vocabulary of Cell and Molecular Biology
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