Effects of thrombomodulin and coagulation Factor Va-light chain on protein C activation in vitro.
AUTOR(ES)
Salem, H H
RESUMO
Protein C activation by thrombin is significantly accelerated by the endothelial cell surface protein thrombomodulin, Factor Va, or its light chain. In this study we have compared the activation of protein C in the presence of either cofactor and examined the possibility that thrombomodulin and Factor Va-light chain act together to regulate protein C activation by thrombin. At all concentrations of protein C used, thrombomodulin was 20 times more efficient than Factor Va-light chain in accelerating protein C activation by thrombin. Protein C treated with chymotrypsin to remove the amino-terminal 41 amino acids that contain the gamma-carboxyglutamyl residues was activated by the thrombin-thrombomodulin complex at an identical rate to native protein C, whereas the modified protein C was activated by Factor Va-light chain and thrombin at only 5% of the rate obtained by using native protein C. Increasing concentrations of Factor Va-light chain, greater than or equal to 30 nM, inhibited thrombin-thrombomodulin catalyzed protein C activation with complete inhibition observed at 90 nM Factor Va-light chain. On the other hand, increasing thrombomodulin concentrations did not inhibit protein C activation by Factor Va-light chain and thrombin. These reactions in solution mimic, in part, those obtained on endothelial cells where protein C lacking the gamma-carboxyglutamyl domain is activated poorly and Factor Va-light chain at concentrations greater than 50 nM inhibited the activation of native protein C. The results of this study suggest that thrombomodulin and Factor Va-light chain may act in concert to regulate protein C activation by thrombin.
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