Meanings
nounglycofraction (plural glycofractions)
plural glycofractions
- A fraction that contains carbohydrates
CEA contains 28 potential N-liked glycosylation sites, and the glycofraction includes mannose, galactose, N-acetylglucosamine, fucose and sialic acid [ 8 ].
2015 June 27, Chuncui Huang et al., “Glycomic profiling of carcinoembryonic antigen isolated from human tumor tissue”, in Clinical Proteomics, volume 12, →DOI
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