Interaction of single-chain urokinase and plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
N Manchanda, B S Schwartz

Abstract

Urokinase (u-PA) is synthesized and secreted as a single-chain polypeptide (single-chain u-PA, scu-PA), which has such little enzymatic activity in solution that it has been considered essentially enzymatically inert. We found that plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1), the major PAI in plasma, demonstrated concentration-dependent inhibition of this solution-phase scu-PA enzymatic activity. 125I-scu-PA formed complexes with PAI-1 in a concentration- and time-dependent manner, as detected by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis under reducing conditions. Among a given population of scu-PA molecules, all measurable enzymatic activity was inhibited by a 10-fold molar excess of PAI-1. However, at this stoichiometry, only a minority of 125I-scu-PA molecules formed SDS-stable complexes with PAI-1 (i.e. complexes that formed a covalent bond upon denaturation), even though the uncomplexed PAI-1 molecules remained competent to inhibit u-PA enzymatic activity. Neither the extent nor the time course of complex formation was altered by using PAI-1 that had been pre-incubated with native human vitronectin, compared with native PAI-1 alone. 125I-scu-PA.PAI-1 complexes that would form a covalent bond if denatured were reversible an...Continue Reading

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