Sean Swale/Human Thrombin Inhibitor

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Human Thrombin Inhibitor

Thrombin is a serine protease that cleaves fibrinogen to allow fibrin to form stringy networks that trap red blood cells to form clots. Thrombin when made by the body is tethered to blood vessels so that it cannot cause clots and spread throughout the body causing strokes and heart attacks. Additionally, thrombin is only activated for a few seconds 

It is in the class of serine protease because the

Introduction

PDB ID 3utu

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Sean Swale, Michal Harel

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