Plasmin and the thrombin–thrombomodulin complex both contribute to thrombin‐activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor activation in whole blood model thrombi
Plasmin and the thrombin–thrombomodulin complex both contribute to thrombin‐activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor activation in whole blood model thrombi
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纤溶酶和凝血酶-血栓调节蛋白复合物均有助于全血模型血栓中凝血酶激活的纤溶抑制剂的激活
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发表时间:
2013
影响因子:
10.4
通讯作者:
A. Gils
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作者:
E. Vercauteren;N. Mutch;P. Declerck;A. Gils
Activated thrombin activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFIa) is formed upon activation of TAFI by thrombin, either alone or in complex with thrombomodulin (T/TM complex), and by plasmin [1,2]. In vitro clot lysis experiments in human plasma revealed that the T/TM complex is the predominant activator of TAFI [3]. This finding was substantiated by an in vivo study in which TAFIa generation during Escherchia coli-induced sepsis in baboons was inhibited by a monoclonal antibody (MA) specifically inhibiting the T/TM-mediated activation of human TAFI [4]. Recent studies from our laboratory using specific MAs that mainly inhibit plasmin-mediated TAFI activation revealed that plasmin functions as an activator of TAFI during plasma clot lysis [5,6]. This was confirmed in an in vivo mouse thromboembolism model in which the analyzed MAs exhibited a strong profibrinolytic effect [5]. In this study, we further evaluate the contribution of TAFIa in the inhibition of fibrinolysis and in particular the importance of the different activators of TAFI. The effect of MAs that impair TAFI activation via different mechanisms was assessed in a whole blood thrombus lysis model [7,8]. The MAs analyzed were (i) MA-TCK11A9 that selectively inhibits the plasmin-mediated human TAFI activation, (ii) MA-T12D11 that selectively inhibits the T/TM-mediated human TAFI activation and (iii) MA-TCK27A4 that inhibits the thrombin-, T/TMand plasmin-mediated human TAFI activation [6,9]. Model thrombi were formed in a Chandler loop system as previously described [7,8]. Briefly, FITC-labeled fibrinogen was added to citrated whole blood, followed by the addition of phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), potato tuber carboxypeptidase inhibitor (PTCI, 25 lg mL; Calbiochem, Beeston, Notts, UK) orMAs. TheMAs were incorporated into forming thrombi at a five-fold molar ratio (65 lg mL) over TAFI (assuming a plasma content of 55% in blood and a TAFI concentration of 10 lg mL in human plasma [10,11]). The mixture was recalcified and rotated at 30 rpm giving a shear rate of 428 s for 90 min at room temperature to form model thrombi. The resulting thrombi were subsequently bathed in PBS containing 0.25 lg mL human tissue plasminogen activator. Thrombi were incubated at 37 C and samples removed at defined times to quantify the released fluorescence that reflects fibrin degradation and thus fibrinolysis. The effect of the inhibitory MAs was compared with PTCI, a small molecule TAFIa inhibitor. All TAFI inhibitors analyzed in this study resulted in a significant increase (P < 0.05; repeated measures ANOVA) in fluorescence release (relative to no inhibitor; Fig. 1A). Interestingly, the MAs that inhibit either plasmin-mediated TAFI activation (MA-TCK11A9) or that inhibit activation through all TAFI activators (MA-TCK27A4) resulted in more rapid lysis than PTCI i.e. a 1.92-fold and 1.90-fold increase in fluorescence release for MA-TCK11A9 and MA-TCK27A4, respectively, compared with a 1.46-fold increase for PTCI. On the other hand, MA-T12D11 that exclusively inhibits the T/TM-mediated TAFI activation revealed only a 1.34-fold increase in fluorescence release. These data illustrate that MAs that impair TAFI activation are profibrinolytic when incorporated into thrombi. This suggests that TAFIa can also exert an antifibrinolytic effect within the environment of the thrombus and not just at the thrombus–plasma interface as previously described [7]. The difference in findings is most likely explained by the high specificity of the inhibitory MAs used here compared with the use of PTCI alone in Mutch et al. [7]. Our observations also indicate a difference in fluorescence release and thus the profibrinolytic effect between the evaluated TAFI inhibitors; with more rapid lysis observed on inclusion of MAs that inhibit plasmin-mediated TAFI activation (MA-TCK11A9 and MA-TCK27A4) compared with the MA that exclusively inhibits T/TM-mediated TAFI activation (MA-T12D11). This suggests that during model thrombus formation, TAFI activation is established to a significant extent via plasmin with the T/TM complex being a less prominent activator. This is an important finding in the current discussion regarding the relative contribution of the various TAFI activators (reviewed in [12,13]). Correspondence: Ann Gils, Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Biology, Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, KU Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg, O&N2, PB 824, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. Tel.: +32 16 32 34 36 ; fax: +32 16 32 34 60. E-mail: ann.gils@pharm.kuleuven.be
影响因子:
20.3
作者:
Bajzar, L;Nesheim, ME;Tracy, PB
通讯作者:
Tracy, PB