A new study published in Molecular Biomedicine uncovers how post-translational modifications (PTMs) of fibrinogen—a key blood plasma protein—affect clot formation, structure, and degradation.

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Fibrin provides structure to a blood clot and is derived from fibrinogen, a soluble blood protein when the coagulation cascade is activated. If you think of a blood clot as nature’s way of plugging a ...