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Anticoagulant dysfunction of human Arg352Trp-activated protein C caused by defective factor Va inactivation

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authors

  • Rintelen, C.
  • Yegneswaran, S.
  • Griffin, John

publication date

  • February 2001

journal

  • Thrombosis and Haemostasis  Journal

abstract

  • The dysfunctional mutant R352W-protein C was found in two patients with venous thrombosis. The mutant R352A-protein C was constructed to define the contribution of charge/size of the residue at 352 on protein C (chymotrypsin numbering 187). Compared with wild type-protein C, R352W-protein C showed no difference in activation by thrombin-thrombomodulin or alpha-thrombin. However, R352W-activated protein C (APC) anticoagulant activity (aPTT assay) was reduced to approximately 65%. Although the catalytic efficiency of R352W-APC towards the oligopeptide substrate S-2366 was unperturbed, factor Va and R506Q-factor Va were not efficiently inactivated by R352W-APC compared with wild type-APC. R352A-APC showed reduced anticoagulant activity and reduced efficiency in factor Va inactivation and in factor VIIIa-inactivation in the presence of protein S. These observations suggest that the dysfunction of R352W-APC in factor Va inactivation may be one of the mechanisms leading to venous thrombosis in affected patients and that R352 plays an important role in the physiological functioning of APC.

subject areas

  • Amino Acid Substitution
  • Anticoagulants
  • Chromogenic Compounds
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
  • Factor V
  • Factor VIIIa
  • Factor Va
  • Humans
  • Kinetics
  • Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
  • Oligopeptides
  • Partial Thromboplastin Time
  • Protein C
  • Protein S
  • Pyrrolidonecarboxylic Acid
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Thrombin
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Research

keywords

  • anticoagulant
  • dysfunction
  • factor Va
  • point mutation
  • protein C deficiency
  • venous thrombosis
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Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0340-6245

PubMed ID

  • 11246547
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 274

end page

  • 279

volume

  • 85

issue

  • 2

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