“…The structure of synthetic substrates and their efficiency for various blood derived serine proteases such as plasmin, factor Xa, thrombin, kallikreins and urokinase, factors VIIa, IXa, XIa, and XIIa, and activated protein C were analyzed in several previous publications (Sherry et al, 1966;Morita et al, 1977;Aurell et al, 1978;Claeson et al, 1978; Lonsdale -Eccles et al, 1980;McRae et al, 1981;Lottenberg et al, 1983Lottenberg et al, , 1986Castillo et al, 1983;Cho et al, 1984;Harnois-Pontoni et al, 1991;Butenas et al, 1992Butenas et al, , 1993Butenas et al, , 1995. The data concerning the influence of the substrate P n -P 1 -P n ′ structure on its efficiency for a given enzyme are controversial (Morita et al, 1977;McRae et al, 1981;Lottenberg et al, 1983;Cho et al, 1984) and do not provide clear answers about the most favorable amino acids at the various P positions (Harnois-Pontoni et al, 1991).…”