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Published on: June 18, 2011
What the structure of angiostatin may tell us about its mechanism of action
1Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. geiger@cem.msu.edu
Abstract:
Originally discovered in 1994 by Folkman and coworkers, angiostatin was identified through its antitumor effects in mice and later shown to be a potent inhibitor of angiogenesis. An internal fragment of plasminogen, angiostatin consists of kringle domains that are known to be lysine-binding. The crystal structure of angiostatin was the first multikringle domain-containing structure to be published. This review will focus on what is known about the structure of angiostatin and its implications in function from the current literature.
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