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The fibrinogen protein

Fibrinogen has double function: yielding monomers that polymrize into fibrin and acting as a cofactor in platelet aggregation. Variation in position Arg35 (the site of cleavage of fibrinopeptide A by thrombin) leads to alpha-dysfibrogenemias. Its fragments may cause hereditary renal amyloidosis. Our SWISSPROT sequences are here, the result of the multiple sequnce alignment is here.


Gergo Kiss 17th April 1999 EMBL/Szeged