Protease Nexin-1 and Thrombin: Injury-related Processes in the Brain
Protease Nexin-1 and Thrombin: Injury-related Processes in the Brain
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蛋白酶 Nexin-1 和凝血酶:大脑损伤相关过程
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发表时间:
1993
影响因子:
6.7
通讯作者:
P. Vaughan
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作者:
Dennis Cunningham;L. Pulliam;P. Vaughan
Thrombin is best known for its role in the final stages of blood coagulation where it has well studied effects on platelet aggregation and fibrin formation. In addition, thrombin directly regulates key activities of certain cells. For example, it is mitogenic for fibroblasts and smooth muscle cells (1) and chernotactic for monocytes (2). These effects of thrombin on cells appear to participate in the complex series of events that comprise the tissue repair process. Recent studies have shown that thrombin can also retract neurites on cultured neurons and neuroblastoma cells (3,4) and convert culturcd stellate astroglia to a nonstcIlate rnorphology (5,6). The latter effect involves a flattening of the astroglia and retraction of processes on the cells which in vivo frequently extend to neurons or capillaries. These effects on neurons and astroglia are specific for thrombin since much higher concentrations of a number of other proteases do not produce similar effects. Moreover, they require the proteolytic activity of thrombin. Significantly. these effects require very low concentrations of thrombin; half-maximal effects on both neurons and astroglia require only picornolar concentrations. A thrornhin receptor similar to the one recently cloned from platelets ( 7 ) appears to be involved in these responses, since effccts identical to thrombin on neuroblasloma cells (8) and astroglia (9) can be produced by thrombin receptor activating peptides. The above effects of thrombin can be regulared by prorease nexin-1 (PN-1). PN-1 is a secreted 43 kDa serine protease inhibitor which in solution rapidly inhibits thrombin, urokinase and plasmin (10). PN-I inhibits These proteases by forming SDS-stable complexes with them; the PN-l -protease complexes then bind to the cells and are rapidly internalized and d e ~ a d e d (1 1). This provides a mechanism for inhibiting and clearing proteases in the extracelIular environment. Free PN-1 binds tightly to the extracelluIar matrix (ECM); this regulates both its activity and target ptotease specificity. Binding of PN-1 Lo the ECM accelerates its inhibition of thrombin and blocks its ability to inhibit urokinase and plasmin (12). Thus, PN-I in the extracellular environment is a specific thrombin inhibitor. Indeed, by inhibiting thrombin, PN-1 can modulate the mitogenic effects of thrombin (33), promote neurite outgrowth from neurons (3) and promote stellation of astrocytes (5 ) . A glial-derived neurite promoting factor, glia-derived nexin, that was identified and studied by Menard and cafIcagucs, is identical to PN-1 (14,15).
DOI:
10.1016/s0021-9258(18)88883-4
发表时间:
1985-06
期刊:
The Journal of biological chemistry
影响因子:
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作者:
Randy W. Scott;Barbara L. Bergman;Ani 1 Bajpai;R. Hersh;Henry Rodriguez;Barry N. Jonesd;Carlos Barredad;S. Watts;Joffre B. Bakera
通讯作者:
Randy W. Scott;Barbara L. Bergman;Ani 1 Bajpai;R. Hersh;Henry Rodriguez;Barry N. Jonesd;Carlos Barredad;S. Watts;Joffre B. Bakera