A new study published in Molecular Biomedicine uncovers how post-translational modifications (PTMs) of fibrinogen—a key blood ...

Fibrinogen, a natural blood protein, is well known for playing a key role in hemostasis, tissue repair and host defence against pathogens. What is less widely known is that fibrinogen in human ...

See Figure 1 for a depiction of normal hemostasis. The activation of the coagulation cascade yields thrombin that converts fibrinogen to fibrin; the stable fibrin clot being the final product of ...