Blood Clotting, Up Close (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Blood Clotting, Up Close

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Click on the link in the story to watch a movie of the supercomputer simulation of the blood clotting factor interacting with the membrane. The GLA domain of the clotting factor is depicted as a purple tube; individual GLA amino acids are yellow; tightly bound calcium ions are pink spheres; and the interacting phospholipids that make up the membrane are below.

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Emad Tajkhorshid

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