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Testican is a type of proteoglycan

Proteoglycan

Proteoglycans are proteins that are heavily glycosylated. The basic proteoglycan unit consists of a "core protein" with one or more covalently attached glycosaminoglycan chain. The point of attachment is a Ser residue to which the glycosaminoglycan is joined through a tetrasaccharide bridge...

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Types include:

SPOCK1
SPOCK1
Testican-1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SPOCK1 gene.-Further reading:...

(Testican-1)
SPOCK2
SPOCK2
Testican-2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SPOCK2 gene.-Further reading:...

(Testican-2)

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