Six amino acid residues in a 1200 Å2 interface mediate binding of factor VIII to an IgG4κ inhibitory antibody.

The development of neutralizing anti-factor VIII (FVIII) antibodies complicates the treatment of many hemophilia A patients. The C-terminal C2 domain is a particularly antigenic FVIII region. A crystal structure of recombinant FVIII-C2 bound to an Fab fragment of the patient-derived monoclonal antib...

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Main Authors: Jasper C Lin, Ruth A Ettinger, Jason T Schuman, Ai-Hong Zhang, Muhammad Wamiq-Adhami, Phuong-Cac T Nguyen, Shelley M Nakaya-Fletcher, Komal Puranik, Arthur R Thompson, Kathleen P Pratt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4304825?pdf=render