Gastric Mucins

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Cysteine-rich regions of pig gastric mucin contain von willebrand factor and cystine knot domains at the carboxyl terminal(1). 
  • Profound increase in viscosity and aggregation of pig gastric mucin at low pH. 
  • Rapid communication: BamHI restriction fragment length polymorphism detected with a pig gastric mucin (MUC5AC) probe. 
  • pH-dependent conformational change of gastric mucin leads to sol-gel transition.