kistrin

The influence of laminin-1 (LN) and tenascin-C (TN), extracellular matrix molecules expressed spatially and temporally along the… (More)

A new type of antimicrobial peptide, snakin-1 (SN1), has been isolated from potato tubers and found to be active, at… (More)

Integrin ligands almost invariably employ a variant of either the RGD or LDV motif as a key element of their receptor recognition… (More)

Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) have been shown to migrate in response to insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I). However, the mechanism… (More)

In many cell systems, cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions are mediated by integrins, a family of cell surface heterodimeric… (More)

Recent data indicate that megakaryocyte/platelet alpha-granule fibrinogen is endocytosed from plasma. Because fibrinogen is the… (More)

The pairing of the cysteines in disulfide bonds was investigated for the 68-residue RGD-containing protein kistrin, a potent… (More)

The binding interactions between platelet fibrinogen receptor, glycoprotein (GP) IIb-IIIa, and kistrin, a snake venom disintegrin… (More)

The structure of kistrin, which is a member of a homologous family of glycoprotein IIb-IIIa (GP IIb-IIIa) antagonists and potent… (More)

BACKGROUND Kistrin is a 68-amino acid polypeptide from the venom of the Malayan pit viper Agkistrodon rhodostoma, which inhibits… (More)