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“Treatment of ECM with glycine (pH 2.7), which removes plasminogen activator inhibitor from the matrix, results in an increase in the rate of ACCS ECM degradation by uPA.”
“However, when both the hydrophobicity and the size of the side chain were reduced by a glycine substitution at this position, a major reduction (9090-fold) in the catalytic efficiency of UK occurred.”