Identification of the epidermal growth factor-like domains of thrombomodulin essential for the acceleration of thrombin-mediated inactivation of single-chain urokinase-type plasminogen activator

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Single-chain urokinase-type plasminogen activator (scu-PA) can be cleaved by thrombin into a virtually inactive form called thrombin-cleaved two-chain urokinase-type plasminogen activator (tcu-PA/T), a process accelerated by thrombomodulin, which contains six epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like domains. In this study, we identified the EGF-like domains of thrombomodulin required for the acceleration of the inactivation of scu-PA by thrombin using various forms of thrombomodulin (TM). scu-PA was treated with thrombin in the absence and presence of full-length rabbit TM (containing EGF1-6), recombinant TM comprising all of the extracellular domains including EGF1-6 (TMLEO) and recombinant TM comprising EGF4-6 plus the interconnecting region between EGF3 and EGF4 (TMEi4-6), and the tcu-PA/T generated was quantitated in each case. Rabbit TM accelerated the inactivation of scu-PA ≈ 35-fold, while both recombinant forms accelerated it only threefold due to the absence of a critical chondroitin sulfate moiety. Subsequently, TME5-6 was prepared by cyanogen bromide digestion of TMEi4-6. TME5-6 bound to thrombin but did not accelerate the activation of protein C. In contrast, the inactivation of scu-PA by thrombin was accelerated to the same extent as that induced by TMLEO and TMEi4-6. This study demonstrates that, in addition to the chondroitin sulfate moiety, only EGF-like domains 5 and 6 are essential for the acceleration of the inactivation of scu-PA by thrombin. This differs from the domains that are critical for activation of protein C (EGF-like domains i4-6) and thrombin activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (EGF-like domains 3-6).

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Schenk-Braat, E. A. M., Morser, J., & Rijken, D. C. (2001). Identification of the epidermal growth factor-like domains of thrombomodulin essential for the acceleration of thrombin-mediated inactivation of single-chain urokinase-type plasminogen activator. European Journal of Biochemistry, 268(21), 5562–5569. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1432-1033.2001.02487.x

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