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Cofactor-induced and mutational activity enhancement of coagulation factor VIIa.
Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS - 1 Mar 2008
Olsen O H, Persson E
Abstract excerpt
Coagulation factor VIIa (FVIIa) is an atypical member of the trypsin family of serine proteases. It fails to attain spontaneously its catalytically competent conformation and requires its protein cofactor tissue factor (TF) to accomplish this. Over a number of years, this unique behaviour of FVIIa has prompted investigations of the TF-induced activation mechanism and the zymogenicity determinants in factor VIIa....
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