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Importance of the amino-acid composition of the shutter region of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 for its transitions to latent and substrate forms.
European journal of biochemistry - 1 Dec 2001
Hansen M, Busse M N, Andreasen P A
Abstract excerpt
The serpins are of general protein chemical interest due to their ability to undergo a large conformational change consisting of the insertion of the reactive centre loop (RCL), which becomes strand 4, into the central beta sheet A. To make space for the incoming RCL, the 'shutter region' opens by the beta strands 3A and 5A sliding apart over the underlying alpha helix B. Loop insertion occurs during the...
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