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Light chain (medicine)


light chain
<immunology, protein> The lighter of the two types of polypeptide chains that are found in immunoglobulin and antibody molecules.

Also used as a non-specific term for the smaller subunits of several multimeric proteins such as immunoglobulin, myosin, dynein, clathrin.