STUDIES IN IMMUNOCHEMISTRY. 22. THE AMINO ACID COMPOSITION OF THE HUMAN BLOOD-GROUP A, B, H AND LEA SPECIFIC SUBSTANCES
- 1 September 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 88 (3), 546-555
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0880546
Abstract
Conditions for the satisfactory hydrolysis of human blood-group substances and the quantitative determination of their amino acids were established. The amino acid composition of more than 20 individual blood-group-specific mucopolysaccharides were closely similar, irrespective of the serological specificity within the ABO and Lewis blood-group systems. Possible functions for the amino acid-containing moiety of the muco-polysaccharide macromolecules are discussed.Keywords
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