Abstract
1. Improved methods for the purification of lamprey thrombin and fibrinogen are presented. 2. Lamprey thrombin releases two fibrinopeptides from lamprey fibrinogen during the transformation into fibrin. Bovine thrombin releases only one of these, a peptide referred to as fibrinopeptide B. The differences in the by-products of fibrin formation are reflected in the different N-terminal amino acid compositions of the two types of fibrin. 3. The fibrinopeptide that is not removed from the lamprey fibrinogen by bovine thrombin can subsequently be released by treatment of that fibrin with lamprey thrombin. 4. Under the conditions used, lamprey thrombin releases both fibrinopeptides at about the same rate. 5. The differences in interaction among these pairs of related proteins are extreme manifestations of the phenomenon loosely referred to as `species specificity'.
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