thrombin

thrombin
n.
a substance (coagulation factor) that acts as an enzyme, converting the soluble protein fibrinogen to the insoluble protein fibrin in the final stage of blood coagulation. Thrombin is not normally present in blood plasma, being derived from an inactive precursor, prothrombin.

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  • Thrombin — Vorhandene Strukturdaten: siehe UniProt Eintrag …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Thrombin — Throm bin, n. [See {Thrombus}.] (Biochem.) The enzyme which converts fibrinogen into fibrin. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC] [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • thrombin — thrombin. См. тромбин. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • Thrombīn — Thrombīn, s. Fibrin …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Thrombin — Thrombin, Serinprotease, die die reversible Umwandlung von Fibrinogen in Fibrin bewirkt, indem sie Fibrinogen in Peptide, Kohlenhydrate und Fibrinmonomere, die polymerisieren, zerlegt; wird aus dem in der Leber unter Mitwirkung von Vitamin K… …   Deutsch wörterbuch der biologie

  • thrombin — [thräm′bin] n. [ THROMB(US) + IN1] the enzyme of the blood, formed from prothrombin, that causes clotting by converting fibrinogen to fibrin …   English World dictionary

  • Thrombin — Coagulation factor II (thrombin) The structure of human thrombin in complex with the inhibitor hirudin.[1] …   Wikipedia

  • Thrombin — A key clot promoter, thrombin is an enzyme that presides over the conversion of a substance called fibrinogen to fibrin, the right stuff for a clot. * * * 1. An enzyme (proteinase), formed in shed blood, that converts fibrinogen into fibrin by… …   Medical dictionary

  • Thrombin — trombinas statusas T sritis ekologija ir aplinkotyra apibrėžtis Hidrolazių klasės fermentas – kraujo krešėjimo reakcijos fermentas, fibrinogeną verčiantis fibrinu. atitikmenys: angl. prothrombin; thrombin; thrombosin vok. Thrombin, n;… …   Ekologijos terminų aiškinamasis žodynas

  • thrombin — trombinas statusas T sritis ekologija ir aplinkotyra apibrėžtis Hidrolazių klasės fermentas – kraujo krešėjimo reakcijos fermentas, fibrinogeną verčiantis fibrinu. atitikmenys: angl. prothrombin; thrombin; thrombosin vok. Thrombin, n;… …   Ekologijos terminų aiškinamasis žodynas

  • thrombin — Protease (34 kD) generated in blood clotting that acts on fibrinogen to produce fibrin. Consists of two chains, A and B, linked by a disulphide bond. B chain has sequence homology with pancreatic serine proteases: cleaves at Arg Gly. Thrombin is… …   Dictionary of molecular biology

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