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Mechanisms of serpin dysfunction in disease.
Expert reviews in molecular medicine - 11 Dec 2006
Kaiserman Dion, Whisstock James C, Bird Phillip I
Abstract excerpt
The serpin superfamily encompasses hundreds of proteins, spread across all kingdoms of life, linked by a common tertiary fold. This review focuses on five diseases caused by serpin dysfunction: variants of antithrombin III lose their ability to interact with heparin; the alpha1-antitrypsin Pittsburgh mutation causes a change in target proteinase; the alpha1-antitrypsin Z mutation and neuroserpin, polymerisation...
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