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<biochemistry> Polymer composed of repeating dimeric units of glucuronic acid and N acetyl glucosamine. May be of extremely high molecular weight (up to several million daltons) and forms the core of complex proteoglycan aggregates found in extracellular matrix.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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