1. Microglobulin was isolated in 1968 by Berggard and Beam.3 It is a non-glycosylated protein with a low molecular weight of 11 800 and has been identified as the invariant light chain of the class I major histocompatibility antigens HLA-A, HLA-B, and HLA-C.4 The
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