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Functional consequences of mutations in amino acid residues that stabilize calcium binding to the first epidermal growth factor homology domain of human protein C.

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:Charge-to-alanine mutations of three amino acid residues, viz, D46, D48, and D/Hya71, which are known to be important in stabilizing Ca2+ binding to epidermal growth factor (EGF) domains of vitamin K-dependent blood coagulation proteins, have been engineered into recombinant human protein C (r-PC). The resulting variants were then employed to assess the importance of this Ca2+ binding site in the activation properties of r-PC and in the activity of activated protein C (APC). Another mutation, of D48 to E, was constructed in order that a more conservative mutation at the Ca2+ binding site could be similarly examined. The mutant proteins were fully processed with regard to proper signal peptide cleavage, gamma-carboxylation, and beta-hydroxylation, except, of course, for the D71A mutant in this latter case. The D48E variant possessed an additional residue of gamma-carboxyglutamic acid (Gla), showing that E48 was gamma-carboxylated. All of the mutants were reactive against a monoclonal antibody (MAb) specific for a Ca(2+)-dependent epitope within the amino-terminus of the Gla domain of r-PC, demonstrating that a proper Ca(2+)-dependent conformation was adopted in this region of the protein. None of the mutants, except for [D48 gamma]r-PC, were reactive against another Ca(2+)-dependent MAb which possessed specificity for Ca2+ binding to the EGF1 region of PC-this being the area of the protein that contained the mutated residues. These data strongly suggest that the alanine mutations present at D46, D48, and D71 diminished Ca2+ binding to the EGF1 domain of r-PC. Steady state kinetic analysis demonstrated that determinants for the Ca(2+)-dependent inhibition of the thrombin (fIIa)-catalyzed activation of r-PC, and for the kinetic recognition of the fIIa/thrombomodulin complex, were not dependent on the integrity of the Ca2+ sites present in EGF1. The lone exception was [D48 gamma]r-PC, which did not undergo inhibition by Ca2+, an effect likely due to the potential for altered coordination of Ca2+ due to the Gla insertion, rather than to a dependency on D48. Plasma-based anticoagulant assays, as well as individual factor Va and factor VIIIa inactivation assays, showed that only [D71A]r-APC possessed a significantly reduced activity compared to wild-type r-APC. These observations suggest that D/Hya71 is likely an important determinant for activity of APC toward its physiological substrates, factor Va and factor VIIIa.

journal_name

Thromb Haemost

journal_title

Thrombosis and haemostasis

authors

Geng JP,Cheng CH,Castellino FJ

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Has Abstract

pub_date

1996-11-01 00:00:00

pages

720-8

issue

eissn

0340-6245

issn

2567-689X

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Functional consequences of mutations in amino acid residues that stabilize calcium binding to the first epidermal growth factor homology domain of human protein C.