Structure and Mechanism of Action of the Vitamin K-Dependent γ-Glutamyl Carboxylase: Recent Advances from Mutagenesis Studies

Barbara C Furie; Bruce Furie

doi:10.1055/s-0038-1657595

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Table of Contents

Thromb Haemost 1997; 78(01): 595-598
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1657595

Structure and mechanism of action of vitamin K-dependent gamrnt-ctrboxylase

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Structure and Mechanism of Action of the Vitamin K-Dependent γ-Glutamyl Carboxylase: Recent Advances from Mutagenesis Studies

Barbara C Furie

Division of Hematology/Oncology and the Center for Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research, New England Medical Center and the Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

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Bruce Furie

Division of Hematology/Oncology and the Center for Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research, New England Medical Center and the Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

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