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  • Title: [Effect of rabbit thrombomodulin on the inhibition of thrombin by the antithrombin-heparin complex: role of the acid domain of thrombomodulin].
    Author: Bourin MC.
    Journal: C R Acad Sci III; 1987; 304(8):173-6. PubMed ID: 3028582.
    Abstract:
    Acidic and non-acidic forms of rabbit thrombomodulin were studied with regard to their effects on the inhibition of thrombin by antithrombin in the presence of exogenous heparin. The non acidic form was obtained by proteolytic cleavage of a polyanionic component (presumably a sulfated polysaccharide) from the parent acidic form of thrombomodulin, and purified by ion-exchange chromatography. It was previously found that the acidic form of thrombomodulin increases the rate of thrombin inactivation by antithrombin. The present study showed that thrombin bound to acidic thrombomodulin was inactivated at a lower rate by antithrombin in the presence of exogenous heparin than was free thrombin or thrombin bound to the non-acidic form of thrombomodulin. The data suggest that the acidic component of thrombomodulin is primarily responsible for the retardation of thrombin-antithrombin complex formation in the presence of exogenous heparin. It is proposed that the polyanionic component of thrombomodulin blocks a site on thrombin required for heparin binding, thus rendering the antithrombin-heparin complex ineffective.
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