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Thrombin receptor activation. Confirmation of the intramolecular tethered liganding hypothesis and discovery of an alternative intermolecular liganding mode.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 10 Jun 1994
Chen J, Ishii M, Wang L, Ishii K, Coughlin S R
Abstract excerpt
Cleavage of the thrombin receptor's amino-terminal exodomain at the Arg41/Ser42 peptide bond within the sequence ... LDPR41/S42FLLRN ... is necessary and sufficient for receptor activation by proteases. The synthetic peptide SFLLRN activates the receptor independent of proteolysis. We proposed that the SFLLRN sequence is a tethered peptide ligand; receptor cleavage unmasks this agonist which then binds...
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