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Structure-function analysis of the streptokinase amino terminus (residues 1-59).
The Journal of biological chemistry - 4 Jul 2003
Mundada Lakshmi V, Prorok Mary, DeFord Melanie E, Figuera Mariana, Castellino Francis J, Fay William P
Abstract excerpt
Streptokinase (SK) binds to plasminogen (Pg) to form a complex that converts substrate Pg to plasmin. Residues 1-59 of SK regulate its capacity to induce an active site in bound Pg by a nonproteolytic mechanism and to activate substrate Pg in a fibrin-independent manner. We analyzed 24 SK mutants to better define the functional properties of SK-(1-59). Mutations within the alphabeta1 strand (residues 17-26) of SK...
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