Large-Scale Purification of Factor-IX

摘要

Human clotting factor-IX (F-IX) is a glycoprotein that is essential for normal hemostasis (1). A deficiency of F-IX in human plasma is caused by an absence or functional mutation of the F-IX gene that expresses inactive F-IX in plasma. That leads to hemophilia B ("Christmas disease," named after its first identified patient), a genetic disorder in which the blood-clotting cascade is disturbed (2,3).