3hat
ACTIVE SITE MIMETIC INHIBITION OF THROMBIN
OverviewOverview
The structures of two mimetic inhibitor complexes of human alpha-thrombin have been determined by X-ray crystallography. One mimics a beta-turn with a bicyclic ring system; the other mimics two different active-site binding modes. The beta-turn mimetic is used to approximate a turn found in the conformation of fibrinopeptide A, which is catalytically released by thrombin in the activation of fibrinogen to fibrin. The binding of the second mimetic is a hybrid between normal substrate and the abnormal binding of the potent natural leech inhibitor hirudin. The binding of the beta-turn mimetic is tenuous, because it is like a substrate, while that of the substrate-hirudin hybrid is that of a tenacious inhibitor (which it is). Structurally retrospect modifications for rational design and improvement of both mimetic inhibitors are proposed.
About this StructureAbout this Structure
3HAT is a Single protein structure of sequence from Homo sapiens. This structure supersedes the now removed PDB entry 2hat. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
ReferenceReference
Active-site mimetic inhibition of thrombin., Mathews II, Tulinsky A, Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 1995 Jul 1;51(Pt 4):550-9. PMID:15299843 Page seeded by OCA on Sun May 4 22:03:32 2008