A proteinase enzyme that is responsible for digesting fibrin in blood clots.
A product of the lysis of plasminogen (profibrinolysin) by plasminogen activators. It is composed of two polypeptide chains, light (B) and heavy (A), with a molecular weight of 75,000. It is the major proteolytic enzyme involved in blood clot retraction or the lysis of fibrin and quickly inactivated by antiplasmins.
An enzyme that digests the protein fibrin. Its function is the dissolution of blood clots. Plasmin is not normally present in the blood but exists as an inactive precursor, plasminogen.
Also called fibrinolysin, this is an enzyme that digests the protein fibrin. It dissolves blood clots and so is present in the blood in the form of plasminogen, an inactive precursor.
A fibrinolytic enzyme derived from its precursor plasminogen.