Alternatively spliced tissue factor is not sufficient for embryonic development.

Tissue factor (TF) triggers blood coagulation and is translated from two mRNA splice isoforms, encoding membrane-anchored full-length TF (flTF) and soluble alternatively-spliced TF (asTF). The complete knockout of TF in mice causes embryonic lethality associated with failure of the yolk sac vasculat...

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Main Authors: Susanna H M Sluka, Alexander Akhmedov, Johannes Vogel, Dusten Unruh, Vladimir Y Bogdanov, Giovanni G Camici, Thomas F Lüscher, Wolfram Ruf, Felix C Tanner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4039448?pdf=render