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Plasminogen mutants activated by thrombin. Potential thrombus-selective thrombolytic agents.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 10 Jun 1994
Dawson K M, Cook A, Devine J M, Edwards R M, Hunter M G, Raper R H, Roberts G
Abstract excerpt
Plasmin, the enzyme responsible for degradation of fibrin in blood clots and thus thrombolysis, is normally formed when its zymogen plasminogen is activated by cleavage of the Arg561-Val562 bond by specific plasminogen activators. We have altered the activation characteristics of plasminogen by substituting the P3, P2, and P1' cleavage site residues with sequences from thrombin-cleavable proteins to produce a...
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