conclusions nx-dcp correlated positively with fibrosis stage and could discriminate well between hcv-related patients with or without significant fibrosis. moreover, nx-dcp had a similar predictive ability to the abovementioned models, and thereby could be a new noninvasive prediction tool for fibrosis. results increase in serum nx-dcp was significantly related to increase in fibrosis stage (p ...

Vitamin K is a substrate for the enzyme catalyzing the carboxylation of specific glutamyl residues to gamma-carboxyglutamyl residues in hepatic precursors of a limited number of plasma proteins, including prothrombin. The gamma-carboxylation of these proteins can be blocked by the anticoagulant warfarin; and in the bovine and human, warfarin treatment results in the secretion of under-gamma-car...

A large family has been studied, 11 of whose members have half-normal plasma concentrations of biological prothrombin activity. The pattern of inheritance is autosomal. By use of a specific immunoassay, affected family members have been shown to possess normal quantities of immunoreactive prothrombin, whose immunologic properties seem identical with those of the normal zymogen. Prothrombin isol...

There are a multiplicity of tests for liver functions, each depending upon a particular function of the liver. There has been growing recognition that the response in prothrombin time to the administration of vitamin K is of aid in the evaluation of hepatic function. The procedures heretofore employed to estimate the prothrombin response have lacked uniformity and, as a consequence, conflicting...

A mutant prothrombin, designated prothrombin Tokushima, was purified from plasma of a proband with 12% of normal plasma clotting activity and 42% of normal prothrombin antigen. The purified preparation gave a single band with the same mobility as that of "prothrombin" by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). The factor Xa-catalyzed proteolysis of prothrombin Toku...

We have isolated five monoclonal IgG anti-beta 2-glycoprotein-1 (anti-beta 2G-1) and anti-prothrombin Fab from a patient with autoantibodies to oxidized low-density lipoproteins by phage display method. Analysis of their binding specificity revealed that all three beta 2GP-1-enriched mAbs (B14, B22, B27) reacted with beta 2GP-1 while both prothrombin-isolated mAbs (P11 and P13) reacted with pro...

S TUDIES of the chemical nature of prothrombin have indicated a glycoprotein structure.2 Data obtained on purified bovine prothrombin have shown the reducing sugar content to be approximately 5 per cent, based on a reference standard of galactose and mannose.35 Laki et al.5 reported a value of 6.5 per cent in terms of glucose, and 1.6 to 1.7 per cent hexosamine. Alexander6 and colleagues observ...

S TUDIES of the chemical nature of prothrombin have indicated a glycoprotein structure.2 Data obtained on purified bovine prothrombin have shown the reducing sugar content to be approximately 5 per cent, based on a reference standard of galactose and mannose.35 Laki et al.5 reported a value of 6.5 per cent in terms of glucose, and 1.6 to 1.7 per cent hexosamine. Alexander6 and colleagues observ...

COAGULATION DISORDERS have represented useful clotting models. During the past decade new problems have appeared. Several conditions due to structural abnormalities of clotting factors have been described. Several dysfibrinogenemias, hemophilia B and BM variants, and factor X Friuli and other factor X variants are now well-defined clotting disorders. 1-8 Recently, two abnormal factor VII defect...

A patient with a significant history of spontaneous and posttraumatic bleeding was found to have hypoprothrombinemia. His prothrombin (factor II) activity by clotting assay was 9.5% and his factor II antigen was 5%. Crossed immunoelectrophoresis and sucrose density gradient ultracentrifugation of the patient's plasma showed his prothrombin to be qualitatively indistinguishable from normal proth...