Preparation of fibrin des-AA by thrombin. 1999

E V Lougovskoi, and G K Gogolinskaya
A.V. Palladin Institute of Biochemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv.

The active thrombin is formed in the blood stream when the blood coagulation system is activated. It attacks fibrinogen, splits off two fibrinopeptides A and fibrinogen is transformed into des-AA fibrin which is able to polymerize spontaneously forming protofibrils. At high thrombin concentration the enzyme splits off two fibrinopeptides B and des-AA fibrin units are transformed into des-AABB fibrin. These two forms of fibrin are widely used in the biological experiments. However des-AA fibrin is obtained usually from fibrinogen using the snake poisons (such as reptilase). Des-AA fibrin was obtained also by physiological enzyme thrombin, but that des-AA fibrin samples had the contamination of des-AABB fibrin. At the present paper we have described the method of the des-AA fibrin preparation by thrombin without any contamination of des-AABB fibrin.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D010446 Peptide Fragments Partial proteins formed by partial hydrolysis of complete proteins or generated through PROTEIN ENGINEERING techniques. Peptide Fragment,Fragment, Peptide,Fragments, Peptide
D005337 Fibrin A protein derived from FIBRINOGEN in the presence of THROMBIN, which forms part of the blood clot. Antithrombin I
D001704 Biopolymers Polymers synthesized by living organisms. They play a role in the formation of macromolecular structures and are synthesized via the covalent linkage of biological molecules, especially AMINO ACIDS; NUCLEOTIDES; and CARBOHYDRATES. Bioplastics,Bioplastic,Biopolymer
D013917 Thrombin An enzyme formed from PROTHROMBIN that converts FIBRINOGEN to FIBRIN. Thrombase,Thrombin JMI,Thrombin-JMI,Thrombinar,Thrombostat,alpha-Thrombin,beta,gamma-Thrombin,beta-Thrombin,gamma-Thrombin,JMI, Thrombin

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