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Thrombomodulin increases the rate of thrombin inhibition by BPTI.
Biochemistry - 13 Jan 1998
Rezaie A R, He X, Esmon C T
Abstract excerpt
Thrombin undergoes allosteric modulation by thrombomodulin (TM) that results in a shift in macromolecular specificity, blocking fibrinogen clotting while enhancing protein C activation. The TM enhancement of protein C activation involves both an 8-fold decrease in Km and a 200-fold increase in kcat. Although TM-mediated conformational changes in thrombin have been detected by many techniques, the nature of these...
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