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The Conundrum of "Warfarin Hypersensitivity": Prolonged Partial Thromboplastin Time From Factor IX Propeptide Mutation.
American journal of therapeutics - 1 Jan 2000
Sekhri Arunabh, Lisinschi Adriana, Furqan Muhammad, Palaniswamy Chandrasekar, Mukhi Nikhil, Gupta Ridhi, Nelson John C
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Carboxylation of glutamic acid residues of vitamin K dependent clotting factors (II, VII, IX, and X) is essential to their biological functioning. Binding of these factors to γ-glutamyl carboxylase enzyme for carboxylation reaction is mediated by wild-type propeptide, a small sequence of amino ac...
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