Folding of PAI-1 Protein (IMAGE)

University of Southern Denmark

Folding of PAI-1 Protein

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The red and blue ribbons show how the protein PAI-1 unfolds right before it destroys itself. On the last picture the protein's active site (green dotted line) has been inactivated (turned into a wide green line), indicating that now the protein is off. It cannot be activated again, but will be removed from the blood as garbage, and new PAI-1 proteins will be produced.

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University of Southern Denmark

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