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The blood coagulation system as a molecular machine.
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 Dec 2003
Spronk Henri M H, Govers-Riemslag José W P, ten Cate Hugo
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The human blood coagulation system comprises a series of linked glycoproteins that upon activation induce the generation of downstream enzymes ultimately forming fibrin. This process is primarily important to arrest bleeding (hemostasis). Hemostasis is a typical example of a molecular machine, where the assembly of substrates, enzymes, protein cofactors and calcium ions on a phospholipid surface markedly...
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