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A Polymer Therapeutic Having Universal Heparin Reversal Activity: Molecular Design and Functional Mechanism.

Abstract：

:Heparins are widely used to prevent blood clotting during surgeries and for the treatment of thrombosis. However, bleeding associated with heparin therapy is a concern. Protamine, the only approved antidote for unfractionated heparin (UFH) could cause adverse cardiovascular events. Here, we describe a unique molecular design used in the development of a synthetic dendritic polycation named as universal heparin reversal agent (UHRA), an antidote for all clinically used heparin anticoagulants. We elucidate the mechanistic basis for the selectivity of UHRA to heparins and its nontoxic nature. Isothermal titration calorimetry based binding studies of UHRAs having different methoxypolyethylene glycol (mPEG) brush structures with UFH as a function of solution conditions, including ionic strength, revealed that mPEG chains impose entropic penalty to the electrostatic binding. Binding studies confirm that, unlike protamine or N-UHRA (a truncated analogue of UHRA with no mPEG chains), the mPEG chains in UHRA avert nonspecific interactions with blood proteins and provide selectivity toward heparins through a combined steric repulsion and Donnan shielding effect (a balance of Fel and Fsteric). Clotting assays reveal that UHRA with mPEG chains did not adversely affect clotting, and neutralized UFH over a wide range of concentrations. Conversely, N-UHRA and protamine display intrinsic anticoagulant activity and showed a narrow concentration window for UFH neutralization. In addition, we found that mPEG chains regulate the size of antidote-UFH complexes, as revealed by atomic force microscopy and dynamic light scattering studies. UHRA molecules with mPEG chains formed smaller complexes with UFH, compared to N-UHRA and protamine. Finally, fluorescence and ELISA experiments show that UHRA disrupts antithrombin-UFH complexes to neutralize heparin's activity.

journal_name

Biomacromolecules

journal_title

Biomacromolecules

authors

Kalathottukaren MT,Abbina S,Yu K,Shenoi RA,Creagh AL,Haynes C,Kizhakkedathu JN

doi

10.1021/acs.biomac.7b00994

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-10-09 00:00:00

pages

3343-3358

issue

eissn

1525-7797

issn

1526-4602

journal_volume

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A Polymer Therapeutic Having Universal Heparin Reversal Activity: Molecular Design and Functional Mechanism.