regulator of complement activation
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complement control protein — (CCP) any of a superfamily of proteins involved in complement regulation, encoded in a closely linked gene cluster, and having one or more stretches of a common short consensus repeat encoding a 60–amino acid domain. Included are factor H, C4… … Medical dictionary
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