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IN the course of preparing an article on muscle proteins1, it became apparent that the analyses, and other properties of fibrinogen are more myosin-like than perhaps had been realized. It was decided to go into the matter further by means of X-rays, with special reference to what happens when fibrinogen is changed to fibrin during the clotting of blood. The problem is of such wide interest that we think it worth while to give a short account of our observations to date, even though confessedly much work remains to be done.
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BAILEY, K., ASTBURY, W. & RUDALL, K. FIBRINOGEN AND FIBRIN AS MEMBERS OF THE KERATIN-MYOSIN GROUP. Nature 151, 716–717 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151716a0
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