Plasma glycoproteins that form a stable complex with hemoglobin to aid the recycling of heme iron. They are encoded in man by a gene on the short arm of chromosome 16.
ID
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D006242
altLabel
Haptoglobin
AN
alpha-globulins; acute phase proteins
AQL
AD AE AG AI AN BI CF CH CL CS DE DF EC GE HI IM IP ME PD PH PK PO RE SD ST TO TU UL UR
cui
C0018595
DC
1
definition
Plasma glycoproteins that form a stable complex with hemoglobin to aid the recycling of heme iron. They are encoded in man by a gene on the short arm of chromosome 16.