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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Chembiochem. 2010 Nov 22;11(17):2341–2346. doi: 10.1002/cbic.201000442

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Serpins inhibit serine proteases by binding a reactive center loop in the active site, forming a covalent complex with the enzyme, undergoing a large conformational change, and irreversibly distorting the active site of the protease (2GD4 and 1EZX.pdb).