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Structures of VWF tubules before and after concatemerization reveal a mechanism of disulfide bond exchange.
Blood - 22 Sept 2022
Anderson Jacob R, Li Jing, Springer Timothy A, Brown Alan
Abstract excerpt
von Willebrand factor (VWF) is an adhesive glycoprotein that circulates in the blood as disulfide-linked concatemers and functions in primary hemostasis. The loss of long VWF concatemers is associated with the excessive bleeding of type 2A von Willebrand disease (VWD). Formation of the disulfide bonds that concatemerize VWF requires VWF to self-associate into helical tubules, yet how the helical tubules template...
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