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In addition, a fortunate observation led to the discovery of a specific and efficient plasminogen activator activity in E. coli.","Taking advantage of the excellent kinetic properties and sensitivity of these fluorogenic substrates, an experimentally simple and accurate method for obtaining the second-order rate constant for inactivation of serine proteases by fast-acting, irreversible inhibitors was also devised. The method was based on formal analysis of an irreversible active site-directed substrate competing with an irreversible active site-directed inhibitor for the active site of a serine protease.","As an example of the wide applicability of these fluorogenic substrates, rhodamine-based dipeptide substrates were adapted for use in a fluorescent single cell assay for transformed cells. Using fluorescence microscopy, it was shown that plasminogen activator-producing transformed cells could be identified at the single cell level. 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