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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-5-31
pubmed:abstractText
From the bloodsucking bug Dipetalogaster maximus, a protein with anticoagulant activity was isolated and biochemically characterized. The isolated protein, named dipetalogastin, possesses an average molecular mass of 11.8 kD. Its N-terminal sequence shows homology to rhodniin, a thrombin inhibitor isolated from the bug Rhodnius prolixus. The in vitro anticoagulant activity of dipetalogastin occurs via the inhibition of thrombin. The anticoagulant and thrombin inhibitory potency of dipetalogastin is comparable to that of recombinant hirudin. Its specific thrombin inhibitory activity is 9,300 antithrombin units/mg protein. Dipetalogastin forms only 1:1 molar complexes with thrombin. It is a tight-binding inhibitor of thrombin possessing a dissociation constant of 125 fM. It does not inhibit factor Xa or alpha-chymotrypsin and only weakly inhibits trypsin.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0301-0147
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2000 S. Karger AG, Basel.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
29
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
204-11
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Anticoagulants, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Blood Coagulation Tests, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Chromatography, Affinity, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Chromatography, Gel, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Endopeptidases, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Enzyme Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Factor X, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Fibrinogen, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Hirudins, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Insect Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Male, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Molecular Weight, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Partial Thromboplastin Time, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Protein Binding, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Stomach, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Thrombin, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Thrombin Time, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Triatominae, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Trypsin, pubmed-meshheading:10702701-Trypsin Inhibitors
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Biochemical characterization of a thrombin inhibitor from the bloodsucking bug Dipetalogaster maximus.
pubmed:affiliation
Research Unit Pharmacological Hemostaseology, Medical Faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany. lan@bug.mpg.uni-jena.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study