Biophysical Studies on Platelet Cofactor I Preparations^[*]

Summary

Preparations of bovine platelet cofactor I have been examined according to biophysical methods. In the ultracentrifuge the patterns reveal a major component comprising 86% of the total and two faster moving minor components. The sedimentation constants are 6.65, 10.0, and 21.2 Svedberg units. The diffusion constant is 3.30 × 10⁻⁷ cm² sec⁻¹. Associating this value with the main constituent, the molecular weight is found to be 196,000. A molecular axial ratio of 12 is also obtained from these data. An axial ratio of 8 is indicated from viscosity data. The extinction coefficient at 2800 Å is 14.8.

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