Fibrinolysin
"Fibrinolysin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A product of the lysis of plasminogen (profibrinolysin) by PLASMINOGEN activators. It is composed of two polypeptide chains, light (B) and heavy (A), with a molecular weight of 75,000. It is the major proteolytic enzyme involved in blood clot retraction or the lysis of fibrin and quickly inactivated by antiplasmins.
| Descriptor ID |
D005341
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.277.656.300.760.330 D08.811.277.656.959.350.330
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| Concept/Terms |
Fibrinolysin- Fibrinolysin
- Protease F
- Glu-Plasmin
- Glu Plasmin
- Plasmin
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Hortin G, Fok KF, Toren PC, Strauss AW. Sulfation of a tyrosine residue in the plasmin-binding domain of alpha 2-antiplasmin. J Biol Chem. 1987 Mar 05; 262(7):3082-5.