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The functional and clinical significance of the Met-->Thr substitution in Kringle IV type 10 of apolipoprotein(a).
Thrombosis research - 1 May 1998
Prins J, van der Hoek Y Y, Biesheuvel T H, Leus F R, van Rijn H J, Kastelein J J
Abstract excerpt
Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)], an independent risk factor for the development of atherosclerosis, contains an apolipoprotein(a) [apo(a)] moiety covalently linked to a LDL moiety. Apo(a) is a glycoprotein homologous to plasminogen as it contains multiple repeats of a lysine binding domain resembling plasminogen kringle IV (K.IV). The multiple K.IV repeats can be differentiated in ten types that show a variation in their...
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