Abstract：
:The low level of enzymatic activity of certain alpha 2-macroglobulin-proteinase complexes could be important to the function of factor VIII/von Willebrand glycoprotein since it is especially sensitive to proteolytic cleavage. To test this possibility, complexes of alpha 2-macroglobulin with plasmin, trypsin, and thrombin were formed in at least a 2:1 molar ratio of alpha 2-macroglobulin:proteinase and tested for effects on the factor VIII procoagulant activity of the factor VIII/von Willebrand glycoprotein. Neither the alpha 2-macroglobulin-trypsin complex nor the alpha 2-macroglobulin-plasmin complex affected factor VIII procoagulant activity. The behavior of the alpha 2-macroglobulin-thrombin complex was different. When alpha 2-macroglobulin and thrombin were incubated in a mole ratio of 3:1 or less, factor VIII procoagulant activity was enhanced to about the same extent as with free thrombin. Even at a 24:1 mole ratio, the mixture could produce 45% of the increase in factor VIII activity obtained with free thrombin. The isolated alpha 2-macroglobulin-thrombin complex could also activate the factor VIII procoagulant function to about 45% of the level obtained with an identical amount of uncomplexed thrombin. Analysis of the alpha 2-macroglobulin-125I-labeled thrombin complexes by rechromatography or by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate indicated that this activation was not due to free thrombin. We conclude that the alpha 2-macroglobulin-thrombin complex retains sufficient proteolytic activity to activate the procoagulant function of factor VIII/von Willebrand glycoprotein despite the latter being a very large substrate, having an estimated molecular weight of 1-20 million.
journal_name
Biochemistryjournal_title
Biochemistryauthors
Switzer ME,Gordon HJ,McKee PAdoi
10.1021/bi00275a018subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1983-03-15 00:00:00pages
1437-44issue
6eissn
0006-2960issn
1520-4995journal_volume
22pub_type
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