title: Complex formation of human Val354-plasminogen with streptokinase.
abstract: A controlled digestion of native human plasminogen (Glu1-plasminogen) from either carbohydrate variant 1 or 2 with pancreatic elastase yields, among others, an activatable fragment, designated Val354-plasminogen (Pgc). This species represents the smallest human plasminogen fragment (ca., 50,000 Mw) known to bind to Sepharose-lysine. Pgc forms a tight equimolar complex with streptokinase, as determined by sucrose density ultracentrifugation, whether formed from Val354-plasminogen or Val354-plasmin. The Val354-plasmin-streptokinase complex readily activates ovine plasminogen, which is normally insensitive to streptokinase, and this complex is essentially inactive toward casein, similar to the equimolar complexes formed with Lys77-plasmin and the elastase fragment, Val442-plasmin.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002364:Caseins; D006801:Humans; D006868:Hydrolysis; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000032:analysis; D010958:Plasminogen / Q000032:analysis; D010960:Plasminogen Activators; D012756:Sheep; D013300:Streptokinase
chemical_list: D002364:Caseins; D010446:Peptide Fragments; C032497:plasminogen-valine; D010958:Plasminogen; D013300:Streptokinase; D010960:Plasminogen Activators