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. 2022 Oct 23;8(1):11–19. doi: 10.1016/j.synbio.2022.10.002

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

The anticoagulation activity of heparin. Antithrombin (a) has low affinity to coagulation enzymes. The conformation of AT (b) is changed after specific binding to the pentasaccharide in heparin chains, which significantly increased the affinity of AT to the coagulation enzymes (c).