Plasmin

Plasmin is an important enzyme (EC 3.4.21.7) present in blood that degrades many blood plasma proteins, including fibrin clots. The degradation of fibrin is termed fibrinolysis. In humans, the plasmin protein (in the zymogen form of plasminogen) is encoded by the PLG gene.

PLG
Available structures
PDBOrtholog search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
AliasesPLG, plasminogen, plasmin, HAE4
External IDsOMIM: 173350 MGI: 97620 HomoloGene: 55452 GeneCards: PLG
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez

5340

18815

Ensembl

ENSG00000122194

ENSMUSG00000059481

UniProt

P00747

P20918

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001168338
NM_000301

NM_008877

RefSeq (protein)

NP_000292
NP_001161810

NP_032903

Location (UCSC)Chr 6: 160.7 – 160.75 MbChr 17: 12.6 – 12.64 Mb
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