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Heavy chain
One of two or more kinds of polypeptide chain of a heteromultimeric protein, distinguished by molecular mass, e.g. one of the larger polypeptide chains that, when combined with another heavy chain and two light chains, make up an immunoglobulin molecule; also the largest of the polypeptide chains of any multimeric protein with non-identical subunits.
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