Urokinase

Urokinase peptidolytic, Urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) is a trypsin-like serine protease that exists as an inactive zymogen (pro-uPA) and requires proteolytic cleavage for its activation. once activated, it serves as the central catalyst in a proteolytic cascade that converts plasminogen to plasmin, a process critically involved in physiological and pathological thrombolysis and extracellular matrix degradation.