Identification of a plasminogen binding region in streptokinase that is necessary for the creation of a functional streptokinase-plasminogen activator complex.
Identification of a plasminogen binding region in streptokinase that is necessary for the creation of a functional streptokinase-plasminogen activator complex.
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鉴定链激酶中的纤溶酶原结合区域,这对于创建功能性链激酶-纤溶酶原激活剂复合物是必需的。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00032a021
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发表时间:
1995
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Kussie,P
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作者:
Reed,GL;Lin,LF;Parhami-Seren,B;Kussie,P
Revised Manuscript Received May 9, 7995® abstract: Streptokinase is a plasminogen activator widely usedto treat patients with myocardial infarction. However, streptokinase is not a protease, and must first bind and interact with plasminogen to form an enzymatic complex. By measuring the binding of recombinant streptokinase fragmentsto plasminogen, we have sought, first, to identify a plasminogen binding region in streptokinase and, second, to explore the relation between binding (via this region) and the generation of a functional streptokinase—plasminogen activator complex. Recombinant streptokinase bound in a saturable and specific manner to human Glu-plasminogen with a dissociation constant of 4.2 x 10 “10 M. Recombinant streptokinase fragments spanning amino acids 1-127 and 1-253 could not be shown to bind to Glu-plasminogen, whereas fragments spanning amino acids 1—352, 120—352, and 244—414 bound tightly to plasminogen and each fragment completely inhibited the binding of full-length streptokinase to plasminogen. Although these latter streptokinase fragments formed a complex with plasminogen, enzymatic assays indicated that none of them was capable of generating an active site. When the streptokinase region shared by these three fragments, spanning residues 244—352, was expressed, it also bound plasminogen and competitively inhibited the formation of a functional plasminogen activator complex by full-length streptokinase. Taken together, these data indicate that streptokinase binds to plasminogen with high affinity, that a primary binding region for plasminogen is located within amino acids 244—352, and that binding via this region is necessary for the generation of a functional plasminogen activator complex.The plasminogen activator streptokinase (SK) 1 is widely used in humans to dissolve the thrombi that cause myocardial infarctions. SK is a single-chain polypeptide of 414 amino acids derived from different strains of streptococcus (Malke et al., 1985). SK differs significantly from the human plasminogen activators urokinase and tissue plasminogen activator. These human plasminogen activators are serine proteases that cleave a peptide bond in plasminogen to convert it to the active enzyme plasmin. In contrast, SK has no intrinsic enzymatic activity. Several theories have been proposed to explain its mechanism of action (eg, Taylor & Beisswenger, 1973; Kosow, 1975; Jackson & Tang, 1982; Nikandrov, 1992), but the preponderance of data favors an “activator complex” model of SK function [reviewed by