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  • Title: Isolation and characterization of a urokinase-type plasminogen activator (Mr = 54,000) from cultured human endothelial cells indistinguishable from urinary urokinase.
    Author: Booyse FM, Osikowicz G, Feder S, Scheinbuks J.
    Journal: J Biol Chem; 1984 Jun 10; 259(11):7198-205. PubMed ID: 6539333.
    Abstract:
    A urokinase-type plasminogen activator secreted by subcultured normal human umbilical vein endothelial cells was purified and compared to urinary urokinase (Mr = 54,000). The enzyme was isolated from serum-free conditioned medium in the presence of 0.1% (v/v) Triton X-100 by p-aminobenzamidine-agarose affinity chromatography, followed by Sephacryl S-200 gel filtration, followed by immunoadsorption chromatography on affinity purified specific anti-urokinase IgG-Sepharose CL-4B. This plasminogen activator form was obtained from the culture medium with a yield of about 47% and specific activity of about 93,000 IU/mg of protein, and represented approximately 18% of the total multiple molecular plasminogen activator activity forms present in endothelial cell conditioned medium. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the purified enzyme showed a single band of plasminogen activator activity with an estimated molecular weight of about 54,000 that was completely inhibited by diisopropyl fluorophosphate (DFP) as well as a single band of radioactivity with similar molecular weight for both the isolated L-[4,5-3H]leucine and [3H]DFP-labeled enzyme. The radiolabeled protein focused as a single major band with a pI value of pH 8.5. The endothelial cell activator and urokinase appeared to be identical in terms of sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, location of the [3H]DFP-labeled active site in the Mr = 33,000 heavy chain and [3H]DFP-labeled active site tryptic peptide, and two-dimensional 125I-labeled tryptic peptide maps. In quenching experiments of the fibrinolytic activities using affinity purified specific anti-urokinase IgG the endothelial cell-derived activator and urokinase appeared to be immunochemically identical, but unrelated to tissue plasminogen activator. These results indicate that the Mr = 54,000 urokinase-type plasminogen activator from cultured normal human endothelial cells is similar to, or identical with, Mr = 54,000 urinary urokinase.
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