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Importance of lysine 125 for heparin binding and activation of antithrombin.
Biochemistry - 16 Apr 2002
Schedin-Weiss Sophia, Desai Umesh R, Bock Susan C, Gettins Peter G W, Olson Steven T, Björk Ingemar
Abstract excerpt
The anticoagulant sulfated polysaccharide, heparin, binds to the plasma coagulation proteinase inhibitor, antithrombin, and activates it by a conformational change that results in a greatly increased rate of inhibition of target proteinases. Lys125 of antithrombin has previously been implicated in this binding by chemical modification and site-directed mutagenesis and by the crystal structure of a complex between...
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