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Structural and functional characterization of the product of disease-related factor H gene conversion.
Biochemistry - 6 Mar 2012
Herbert Andrew P, Kavanagh David, Johansson Conny, Morgan Hugh P, Blaum Bärbel S, Hannan Jonathan P, Barlow Paul N, Uhrín Dušan
Abstract excerpt
Numerous complement factor H (FH) mutations predispose patients to atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) and other disorders arising from inadequately regulated complement activation. No unifying structural or mechanistic consequences have been ascribed to these mutants beyond impaired self-cell protection. The S1191L and V1197A mutations toward the C-terminus of FH, which occur in patients singly or...
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