Variants of tissue-type plasminogen activator which display substantially enhanced stimulation by fibrin.

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Unlike most proteases, tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) is secreted from cells as an active, single chain "proenzyme" whose catalytic efficiency is comparable with that of the corresponding mature, two-chain enzyme. We have previously suggested that the absence of the "zymogen triad" (Asp194-His40-Ser32; chymotrypsin numbering) contributes to this unusually high enzymatic activity of single chain t-PA....

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