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Fetuin was discovered in 1944 because of its behavior in the ultracentrifuge.1 In his historical review of fetuin, Kai Pedersen, the original discoverer of the protein, wrote,

“it (fetuin) was quite different from other serum proteins previously studied. It precipitated abundantly in an ammonium sulphate concentration range in which earlier only 7s and 20s components had been observed. Its molecular weight, 50,000, was the lowest observed for a serum protein; it was very asymmetrical; its partial specific volume was quite low—0.70; the nitrogen content was low, 13g N/100g protein; the isoelectric point was low, pH 3.5. The cause of the low nitrogen value was the high carbohydrate content of fetuin, 23%. The name fetuin (Latin; fetus) was proposed because this protein was the predominating component in the fetal serum, rapidly decreased, and finally disappeared in the newborn calf.”

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Dziegielewska, K.M., Brown, W.M. (1995). Introduction. In: Fetuin. Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-21898-3_1

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