Abstract
In stark contrast to most other members of the chymotrypsin family of serine proteases, tissue type plasminogen activator (t-PA) is not synthesized and secreted as a true zymogen. Instead, single-chain t-PA exhibits very significant catalytic activity. Consequently, the zymogenicity, or ratio of the catalytic efficiencies of the mature, two-chain enzyme and the single-chain precursor, is only 3-9 for t-PA. Both we and others have previously proposed that Lys156 may contribute directly to this exceptional property of t-PA by forming interactions that selectively stabilize the active conformation of the single-chain enzyme. To test this hypothesis we created variants of t-PA in which Lys156 was replaced by a tyrosine residue. As predicted, the K156Y mutation selectively suppressed the activity of the single-chain enzyme and thereby substantially enhanced the enzyme's zymogenicity. In addition, however, this mutation produced a very dramatic increase in the ability of single-chain t-PA to discriminate among distinct fibrin co-factors. Compared with wild type t-PA, one of the variants characterized in this study, t-PA/R15E,K156Y, possessed substantially enhanced response to and selectivity among fibrin co-factors, resistance to inh...Continue Reading
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