BINDING OF LOW-AFFINITY AND HIGH-AFFINITY HEPARIN TO ANTI-THROMBIN - COMPETITION FOR SAME BINDING-SITE ON PROTEIN
BINDING OF LOW-AFFINITY AND HIGH-AFFINITY HEPARIN TO ANTI-THROMBIN - COMPETITION FOR SAME BINDING-SITE ON PROTEIN
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1432-1033.1978.tb12568.x
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
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BJORK, I
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作者:
DANIELSSON, A;BJORK, I
Heparin preparations contain 2 functionally distinct forms of the polysaccharide. Both bind to antithrombin with a stoichiometry of 1, but with affinities differing by about 1000-fold. The high-affinity fraction accounts for nearly all of the anticoagulant activity of the original preparation, while the low-affinity fraction is almost inactive. Previous investigations were not able to decide whether the 2 forms bind to the same or to different sites on the protein. The experiments presented here were designed to elucidate this problem. Affinity chromatography experiments showed that high-affinity heparin displaced radiolabeled low-affinity heparin from matrix-linked [bovine] antithrombin, and 125I-labeled antithrombin from matrix-linked low-affinity heparin. Quantitative analyses of the ability of low-affinity heparin to displace radiolabeled high-affinity heparin from antithrombin bound to microcrystalline cellulose were also made. These gave a value for the association constant for the binding of low-affinity heparin to antithrombin close to that determined by fluorescence measurements for the reactants in solution. The experiments thus suggest that there is only 1 heparin binding site on antithrombin, to which high-affinity and low-affinity heparin bind. The different affinities of the 2 heparin forms and their different effects on the properties of the inhibitor must be due solely to inherent differences in their structure.