Shedding

The English term shedding (dt .: "throw off") is used in molecular biology for the following processes:

• Antigen shedding , the shedding of antigens from the cell membrane of body cells
• Ectodomain shedding , the proteolytic separation of the extracellular domains (ectodomains) from membrane proteins

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.