Description
Description: Antihemophilic Facor Human Recombinant produced in CHO is a glycosylated polypeptide chain having a total amino acids of 1438 (170kd) and consisting of two dimer chains 80 kD and 90 kD.The Factor-VIII lacks central region of B-domain region and is purified by proprietary chromatographic techniques.
Introduction: Coagulation factor VIII participates in the intrinsic pathway of blood coagulation; factor VIII is a cofactor for factor IXa which, in the presence of Ca+2 and phospholipids, converts factor X to the activated form Xa. This gene produces two alternatively spliced transcripts. Transcript variant 1 encodes a large glycoprotein, isoform a, which circulates in plasma and associates with von Willebrand factor in a noncovalent complex. This protein undergoes multiple cleavage events. Transcript variant 2 encodes a putative small protein, isoform b, which consists primarily of the phospholipid binding domain of factor VIIIc. This binding domain is essential for coagulant activity. Defects in this gene results in hemophilia A, a common recessive X-linked coagulation disorder