HEPARIN BINDING DEFECT IN A NEW ANTI-THROMBIN-III VARIANT - ROUEN, 47 ARG TO HIS

  • 1 May 1987
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 69  (5) , 1275-1279
Abstract
Antithrombin III (AT-III) Rouen is a hereditary abnormal antithrombin with normal progressive inhibitory activity and reduced heparin cofactor activity. It was isolated from the plasma of a woman who suffered a sudden idiopathic sensorineural hearing loss and balance impairment. There was no familial history of thrombosis. By heparin-Sepharose chromatography, AT-III Rouen was separated from the normal antithrombin on elution with increasing concentrations of NaCl. AT-III Rouen eluted earlier than is normal at both pH 7.4 and pH 6.0. At the lower pH, the antithrombins bound more avidly to the column, with the abnormal AT-III eluting closer to the normal than at the higher pH. Two-dimenisonal peptide mapping of tryptic and Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease digests of carboxymethylated antithrombins was performed on thin-layer silica plates. The abnormal peptide was located by tryptophan staining, and amino acid analysis and sequence studies demonstrated a substitution of an arginine at residue 47 for a histidine. Results from this study suggest that replacement of arginine 47 by a partially positively charged histidine has less effect on the heparin binding affinity than does replacing it with a neutral cysteine side chain as in AT-III Toyama, in which no heparin binding was observed. In addition, heparin binding per se is not a sufficient condition to activate AT-III.

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