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Proexosite-1-dependent recognition and activation of prothrombin by taipan venom.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 23 Apr 2004
Chen Lin, Rezaie Alireza R
Abstract excerpt
An activator complex from the venom of Oxyuranus scutellatus scutellatus (taipan venom) is known to rapidly activate prothrombin to thrombin. To determine whether, similar to prothrombinase, taipan venom utilizes proexosite-1 on prothrombin for a productive complex assembly, the activation of proexosite-1 mutants of prethrombin-1 by the partially purified venom was studied. It was discovered that basic residues...
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