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Characterization of wild-type and mutant alpha2-antiplasmins: fibrinolysis enhancement by reactive site mutant.
Blood - 1 Jul 1999
Lee K N, Tae W C, Jackson K W, Kwon S H, McKee P A
Abstract excerpt
During human blood clotting, alpha2-antiplasmin (alpha2AP) becomes covalently linked to fibrin when activated blood clotting factor XIII (FXIIIa) catalyzes the formation of an isopeptide bond between glutamine at position two in alpha2AP and a specific epsilon-lysyl group in each of the alpha-chains of fibrin. This causes fibrin to become resistant to plasmin-mediated lysis. We found that chemically Arg-modified...
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