Preliminary experiments indicate that human erythrocyte membranes contain very large polypeptide chains, of molecular weight about 200,000. This is the second largest molecular weight ever reported for a single polypeptide chain from any mammalian tissue, the only larger one being the heavy chain of myosin.
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