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Figure 5
Comparison of mechanism of thrombin recognition by anophelin with other substrates and inhibitors. Thrombin is represented by an orange ellipse, with exosites in blue and the active site in red. Anophelin inhibitor binds to thrombin in a reverse orientation relative to the other molecules, such that the N-terminal portion recognises exosite I, whereas the C-terminal acidic segment binds to the active site of thrombin. From original Figure 4 of Ana C. Figueiredo, Daniele de Sanctis, Ricardo Gutiérrez-Gallego, Tatiana B. Cereija, Sandra Macedo-Ribeiro, Pablo Fuentes-Prior, and Pedro José Barbosa Pereira, “Unique thrombin inhibition mechanism by anophelin, an anticoagulant from the malaria vector” which appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.” Volume, 109, Issue 52, pages E3649 to E3658, 2013 (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1211614109). Reprinted with permission of PNAS.
