CATH Classification

Domain Context

CATH Clusters

Superfamily Trypsin-like serine proteases
Functional Family Prothrombin

Enzyme Information

3.4.21.5
Thrombin.
based on mapping to UniProt P00734
Selective cleavage of Arg-|-Gly bonds in fibrinogen to form fibrin and release fibrinopeptides A and B.
-!- More selective than trypsin and plasmin. -!- Belongs to peptidase family S1. -!- Formerly EC 3.4.4.13.

UniProtKB Entries (2)

P00734
THRB_HUMAN
Homo sapiens
Prothrombin
P01050
HIRV1_HIRME
Hirudo medicinalis
Hirudin variant-1

PDB Structure

PDB 2PW8
External Links
Method X-RAY DIFFRACTION
Organism Escherichia
Primary Citation
Crystal structure of a biosynthetic sulfo-hirudin complexed to thrombin.
Liu, C.C., Brustad, E., Liu, W., Schultz, P.G.
J.Am.Chem.Soc.