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Glycoprotein hormone alpha & beta chains
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 GLASGOW University,   1994.
 Joseph Black Chair of Protein Crystallography

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The structure of hCG was first determined in Glasgow at 3.0Ang resolution. Each molecule
has two beta-hairpin loops on one side of a central cystine knot and a long loop on the other.
REFERENCES
 95 ) Structural and molecular studies of human chorionic gonadotropin
 96 ) Molecular Structure of Gonadotropins
 97 ) Glycoprotein hormones, Gonadotropin sequences;  A discussion of the alpha subunit (generic)
        and the beta subunits (specific)

Glycoprotein hormone alpha chains.

Luteinizing hormone beta chains.

Gonadotropin I/II beta chains.

  
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Diagrams of the hCG molecule

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