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Alpha globulin

globular protein in the plasma

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 23, 2023
Entity authorityQ2440935 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alpha globulins are a group of globular proteins in plasma that are highly mobile in alkaline or electrically charged solutions. They inhibit certain blood proteases and show significant inhibitor activity.

The alpha globulins typically have molecular weights of around 93 kDa.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Alpha globulin” is globular protein in the plasma. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Alpha, globulin and globular, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 41-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Alpha, globulin and globular is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 23, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q2440935. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alpha globulin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.