Three-dimensional structure of the kringle sequence: structure of prothrombin fragment 1.
Three-dimensional structure of the kringle sequence: structure of prothrombin fragment 1.
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kringle序列的三维结构:凝血酶原片段1的结构。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00362a001
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发表时间:
1986
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Tulinsky,A
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作者:
Park,CH;Tulinsky,A
Chang H. Park and Alexander Tulinsky* Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 Received March 18, 1986; Revised Manuscript Received April 28, 1986 abstract: The three-dimensional structure of bovine prothrombin fragment 1 has been solved at 2.8-Á resolution. The electron density clearly reveals four disulfide bridges along with more than 80% of the side chains completely in density, which correspond faithfully to the kringle sequence, its preceding 30 residues, and the dodecapeptide carboxy terminal; the polysaccharideand the first 35 residues of the amino terminal of fragment 1 are disordered or about 40% of the structure. The folding of the kringle sequence is based upon close disulfide van der Waals contacts between Cys-87-Cys-127 and Cys-115-Cys-139 (4.1 Á between midpoints of the bridges), two antiparallel strands of highly conserved (113-118, 124-129)/3-structure, and the stacking of some conserved aromatic residues, all near the center of the folded structure. Moreover, the overall folding appears to be duplicated as a pair of stacked duplex loops with an antiparallel open loop. The overall shape of the kringle structure approximates an eccentric oblate ellipsoid of dimensions 11 x 28 X 30 Á. The residues immediately preceding the kringle are dominated by-helical structure (Phe-41-Cys-48; Leu-56-Glu-63). Residues Phe-41-Trp-42 and Tyr-45, which are conserved in factor IX, factor X, protein C, and protein Z, form another aromatic stacked cluster while the Cys-48-Cys-61 disulfide loop corresponds to the well-known/ß structural unit. The dodecapeptide carboxy-terminalinterkringle chain extends along the periphery of the kringle in its plane and forms a/3-structure with the kringle-closing Ser-140-Val-143 tetrapeptide. e production of the fibrin clot in blood coagulation arises from a cascade of activationreactions in which precursor glycoproenzyme molecules are converted to enzymes (Davie & Fujikawa, 1975). Moreover, the process is accomplished at greatly enhanced efficiency in the presence of membrane and cofactor enzymes, Ca2+ ions, and phospholipid surface (Mann, 1984). Blood coagulation reactions are thusly localized via complexation among cascade components at the site of the vascular injury. With time, cellular plasminogen activators convert plasminogen to plasmin, whichultimately dissolves the fibrin of the blood clot (Jackson & Nemerson, 1980). The penultimate step of the blood coagulation cascade is the proteolytic conversion of the vitamin K dependent zymogen prothrombin or factor II (Mr 74000) to thrombin or factor Ha (Mr 37 400). The two proteolytic cleavages that occur are catalyzed by another vitamin K dependent enzyme, factor Xa (MT 45 300)(Mann, 1976). A crucial requirement of this particular activation is the interaction of factor Xa with f This work was supported by NIH Grant HL25942.