Autoactivation of thrombin precursors.
Pozzi, N., Chen, Z., Zapata, F., Niu, W., Barranco-Medina, S., Pelc, L.A., Di Cera, E.(2013) J Biol Chem 288: 11601-11610
- PubMed: 23467412 
- DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.451542
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
4H6S, 4H6T, 4HFP, 4RN6 - PubMed Abstract: 
Trypsin-like proteases are synthesized as inactive zymogens and convert to the mature form upon activation by specific enzymes, often assisted by cofactors. Central to this paradigm is that the zymogen does not convert spontaneously to the mature enzyme, which in turn does not feed back to activate its zymogen form ...