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  • Title: Unesterified long chain fatty acids inhibit the binding of single chain urokinase to the urokinase receptor.
    Author: al-Roof Higazi A, Aceto JF, Kniss D, Upson R, Cohen R, Dichek DA, Cines DB.
    Journal: Biochemistry; 1996 May 28; 35(21):6884-90. PubMed ID: 8639640.
    Abstract:
    The interaction of single chain urokinase with its receptor accelerates plasminogen activator activity on cell surfaces and induces intracellular signalling in several cell types. To date, no physiologic inhibitor of this binding has been identified. We report that the binding of scuPA to its cellular receptor is inhibited by long chain fatty acids such as oleic acid (C18, delta 9) at physiological plasma concentrations. Inhibition of single chain urokinase binding to human trophoblastic cells by long chain fatty acids was dose-dependent and saturable. Fifty percent of the binding was inhibited at an oleic acid concentration of 27 microM, while inhibition was maximal (75%) at 150 microM oleic acid. The inhibitory potency of oleic acid was unaffected by fatty acid free albumin or human plasma. Inhibition of single chain urokinase binding by free fatty acid analogues was critically dependent on chain length (> C14 required for inhibition) and was proportional to the extent of unsaturation. Only the fraction of specific scuPA binding to trophoblasts that was dependent on uPAR was susceptible to inhibition by oleic acid, while binding of scuPA to vitronectin, thombospondin, and the alpha 2-macroglobulin receptor/low-density lipoprotein-related receptor was not. [3H]Oleic acid bound specifically to recombinant soluble uPAR in a 1:1 molar ratio in the presence or absence of plasma and totally blocked its specific binding to a cell line expressing glycosyl phosphatidylinositol-linked single chain urokinase. These results indicate that oleic acid and other unsaturated long chain free fatty acids may serve as physiologic regulators of proteolytic events and intracellular signalling that depend upon the interaction of urokinase with its receptor.
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