See Also: immunoglobulins, epsilon-chain(medicine)
immunoglobulins, j-chain(medicine)
immunoglobulins, mu-chain(medicine)
immunoglobulins, alpha-chain(medicine)
immunoglobulins, heavy-chain(medicine)
immunoglobulins, gamma-chain(medicine)
immunoglobulins, lambda-chain(medicine)
immunoglobulins, light-chain(medicine)
immunoglobulins, kappa-chain(medicine)
immunoglobulins, delta-chain(medicine)

immunoglobulins, epsilon-chain (medicine)


immunoglobulins, epsilon-chain
Heavy chains found in the fab and fc fragments of IgE and having a molecular weight of approximately 72 kD. They contain about 550 amino acid residues arranged in five domains and about three times more carbohydrate than the heavy chains of IgA, IgD, and IgG.