Hemoglobin epsilon antibody (FITC) was raised in mouse using hemoglobin gower-I (alpha2 epsilon2) isolated from culture fluids of the cell line K562 as the immunogen.
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Biological Significance
Hemoglobin Gower-1 is found as a minor Hb in the early embryo. It disappears by the third month of pregnancy in favour of haemoglobin Gower-2 and haemaglobin Portland and then Hb F. The zeta chain has 141 amino acid residues. Synthesis of the zeta chain is deficient in cases of hydrops foetalis.