Comparative Analysis of Haemostatic Proteinases: Structural Aspects of Thrombin, Factor Xa, Factor IXa and Protein C

Wolfram Bode; Hans Brandstetter; Timothy Mather; Milton T Stubbs

doi:10.1055/s-0038-1657577

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Table of Contents

Thromb Haemost 1997; 78(01): 501-511
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1657577

Crystal structure of coagulation proteins

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Comparative Analysis of Haemostatic Proteinases: Structural Aspects of Thrombin, Factor Xa, Factor IXa and Protein C

Wolfram Bode

¹Max-Planck-lnstitut für Biochemie, Abteilung Strukturforschung, Am Klopferspitz 18a, D-82152 Martinsried bei München, Germany

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Hans Brandstetter

²Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

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Timothy Mather

³Cardiovascular Biology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Oklahoma City, OK, USA

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Milton T Stubbs

⁴lnstitut für Pharmazeutische Chemie der Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marbacher Weg 6, D-35032 Marburg, Germany

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