Tissue factor

F3
Available structures
PDBOrtholog search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
AliasesF3, CD142, TF, TFA, coagulation factor III, tissue factor
External IDsOMIM: 134390; MGI: 88381; HomoloGene: 1511; GeneCards: F3; OMA:F3 - orthologs
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez

2152

14066

Ensembl

ENSG00000117525

ENSMUSG00000028128

UniProt

P13726

P20352

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001993
NM_001178096

NM_010171

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001171567
NP_001984

NP_034301

Location (UCSC)Chr 1: 94.53 – 94.54 MbChr 3: 121.52 – 121.53 Mb
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Tissue factor, also called platelet tissue factor or Coagulation factor III, is a protein present in subendothelial tissue and leukocytes which plays a major role in coagulation and, in humans, is encoded by F3 gene. Its role in the blood clotting is the initiation of thrombin formation from the zymogen prothrombin. Thromboplastin defines the cascade that leads to the activation of factor X—the tissue factor pathway. In doing so, it has replaced the previously named extrinsic pathway in order to eliminate ambiguity.