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  • Title: Identification of structural domains in protein C involved in its interaction with thrombin-thrombomodulin on the surface of endothelial cells.
    Author: Hogg PJ, Ohlin AK, Stenflo J.
    Journal: J Biol Chem; 1992 Jan 15; 267(2):703-6. PubMed ID: 1309772.
    Abstract:
    The structural domains of protein C involved in its interaction with thrombin-thrombomodulin on the endothelial cell surface have been investigated using isolated intact domains of bovine protein C produced from controlled proteolytic digests of the protein. The fragments investigated include the gamma-carboxyglutamic acid (Gla)-rich module, the two epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like modules, and a fragment consisting of the Gla and the two EGF-like modules. The effects of these fragments on the catalytic efficiency (Km and Vmax) of activation of protein C by the endothelial cell surface thrombin-thrombomodulin complex (IIa-TM) have been evaluated in vitro using a stirred microcarrier cell culture of bovine aortic endothelial cells and purified proteins. Neither the Gla nor the two EGF-like modules alone had any discernible effect on protein C activation. The intact Gla-EGF fragment, however, inhibited protein C activation. The results are consistent with a rapid equilibrium competitive inhibition model, in which the Gla-EGF fragment competes with protein C for binding to IIa-TM, and indicate that the Gla-EGF fragment alone accounts for most of the binding energy of intact protein C for IIa-TM. In addition, a requirement for the Gla residues of protein C for binding is implied by the observation that heat-decarboxylated Gla-EGF fragment was not an inhibitor of protein C activation. In addition, chloromethyl ketone-inactivated activated protein C was found to bind to IIa-TM with the same affinity as protein C, suggesting that the changes which occur in protein C upon activation do not affect that part of the protein responsible for binding to IIa-TM, that is the Gla-EGF region. The Gla-EGF region from factor X also weakly inhibited the IIa-TM activation of protein C.
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