Glycosphingolipids with Lewis Blood Group Activity: Uptake by Human Erythrocytes

2 May 1969

journal article
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Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 164 (3879) , 553-555
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.164.3879.553

Abstract

The Lewis blood group antigens of the human erythrocyte are acquired from plasma and not synthesized in situ. Although assumed previously to be glycoproteins, tile Lewis antigens in plasma are glycosphingolipids Which are taken up by the the erythrocyte membrane from lipoproteins or from aqueous dispersions.

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