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Protein S Tokushima: abnormal molecule with a substitution of Glu for Lys-155 in the second epidermal growth factor-like domain of protein S.
Blood - 1 Feb 1994
Hayashi T, Nishioka J, Shigekiyo T, Saito S, Suzuki K
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A 29-year-old female patient with heterozygous congenital protein S deficiency suffering from thrombotic disease had normal levels of both total and free protein S antigen (70% and 65%, respectively), but low cofactor activity (31%) for activated protein C, indicating that she had a variant of protein S, protein S Tokushima. Western blotting using the polyclonal anti-protein S antibody showed that approximately...
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