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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 25.
Published in final edited form as: Semin Nephrol. 2012 Mar;32(2):208–214. doi: 10.1016/j.semnephrol.2012.02.007

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Multimerization of VWF. Individual VWF monomers form dimers via disulfide bonds near the C-termini of each molecule. Much larger multimers form via N-terminal disulfide bonds between dimers. Multimers of VWF can comprise greater than 100 individual monomers, and exceed 20,000 kDa in molecular weight.