Endothelial cell-derived high molecular weight von Willebrand factor is converted into the plasma multimer pattern by granulocyte proteases

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
H M TsaiI I Sussman

Abstract

We have previously found that the von Willebrand factor released by cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells appeared as a single high molecular weight band in glyoxyl agarose electrophoresis. In the present studies we report that this high molecular weight endothelial cell-derived von Willebrand factor, when incubated with granulocyte lysates, was cleaved into a series of multimers indistinguishable from those seen in normal plasma (or type II von Willebrand disease). This von Willebrand factor-cleaving activity was released from granulocytes by calcium ionophore A23187 but was not detected in cytosolic fractions depleted of granular contents. It was inhibited by the serine protease inhibitor phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride. This von Willebrand factor-cleaving activity thus provides a possible mechanism for the generation of plasma von Willebrand factor multimers from the high molecular weight form of von Willebrand factor secreted by endothelial cells.

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