Structural Basis for the Anticoagulant Activity of the Thrombin-Thrombomodulin Complex
Fuentes-Prior, P., Iwanaga, Y., Huber, R., Pagila, R., Rumennik, G., Seto, M., Morser, J., Light, D.R., Bode, W.(2000) Nature 404: 518
- PubMed: 10761923 
- DOI: 10.1038/35006683
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1DX5 - PubMed Abstract: 
The serine proteinase alpha-thrombin causes blood clotting through proteolytic cleavage of fibrinogen and protease-activated receptors and amplifies its own generation by activating the essential clotting factors V and VIII. Thrombomodulin, a transmembrane thrombin receptor with six contiguous epidermal growth factor-like domains (TME1-6), profoundly alters the substrate specificity of thrombin from pro- to anticoagulant by activating protein C ...