The ornithodorin-thrombin crystal structure, a key to the TAP enigma?
van de Locht, A., Stubbs, M.T., Bode, W., Friedrich, T., Bollschweiler, C., Hoffken, W., Huber, R.(1996) EMBO J 15: 6011-6017
- PubMed: 8947023 
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1TOC - PubMed Abstract: 
Ornithodorin, isolated from the blood sucking soft tick Ornithodoros moubata, is a potent (Ki = 10(-12) M) and highly selective thrombin inhibitor. Internal sequence homology indicates a two domain protein. Each domain resembles the Kunitz inhibitor basi ...