Article
Converting tissue plasminogen activator to a zymogen: a regulatory triad of Asp-His-Ser.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 15 Oct 1993
Madison E L, Kobe A, Gething M J, Sambrook J F, Goldsmith E J
Abstract excerpt
Unlike most serine proteases of the chymotrypsin family, tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) is secreted from cells as an active, single-chain enzyme with a catalytic efficiency only slightly lower than that of the proteolytically cleaved form. A zymogenic mutant of tPA has been engineered th...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Aspartic Acid
- Base Sequence
- Catalysis
- Chymotrypsin
- Enzyme Precursors
- Histidine
- Hydrogen Bonding
- Kinetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Mutation
