The invention relates to therapeutic fusion proteins in which a coagulation factor is fused to a half-life enhancing polypeptide, and both are connected by a linker peptide that is proteolytically cleavable. The cleavage of such linkers liberates the coagulation factor from any activity-compromising steric hindrance caused by the half-life enhancing polypeptide and, thereby, allows the generation of fusion proteins with high molar specific activity when tested in coagulation-related assays. Furthermore, the fact that the linker is cleavable can enhance the rates of inactivation and/or elimination after proteolytic cleavage of the peptide linker compared to the corresponding therapeutic fusion protein linked by the non- cleavable linker having the amino acid sequence GGGGGGV.
