von Willebrand factor
BE0001043ProteinHumansVWF
Important in the maintenance of hemostasis, it promotes adhesion of platelets to the sites of vascular injury by forming a molecular bridge between sub-endothelial collagen matrix and platelet-surface receptor complex GPIb-IX-V. It is acted on by 20 drugs in DrugBank.
- Gene name
- VWF
- UniProtKB entry
- P04275Swiss-Prot
- Cellular location
- Secreted
- Residues / weight
- 2,813 residues · 309,262 Da
- Also known as
- F8VWF · vWF
Resolves to
Pharmacology
Drugs
What you can answer from here — as of September 07, 2019
Which approved drugs act on von Willebrand factor, how selective are they, and which programs against it are still in active trials?
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