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Interaction of Single-chain Urokinase and Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor Type 1 (*)

N. Manchanda,B. Schwartz

Published 1995 in Journal of Biological Chemistry

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Urokinase (u-PA) is synthesized and secreted as a single-chain polypeptide (single-chain u-PA, scu-PA), which has such little enzymatic activity in solution that it has been considered essentially enzymatically inert. We found that plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1), the major PAI in plasma, demonstrated concentration-dependent inhibition of this solution-phase scu-PA enzymatic activity. I-scu-PA formed complexes with PAI-1 in a concentration- and time-dependent manner, as detected by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis under reducing conditions. Among a given population of scu-PA molecules, all measurable enzymatic activity was inhibited by a 10-fold molar excess of PAI-1. However, at this stoichiometry, only a minority of I-scu-PA molecules formed SDS-stable complexes with PAI-1 (i.e. complexes that formed a covalent bond upon denaturation), even though the uncomplexed PAI-1 molecules remained competent to inhibit u-PA enzymatic activity. Neither the extent nor the time course of complex formation was altered by using PAI-1 that had been pre-incubated with native human vitronectin, compared with native PAI-1 alone. I-scu-PA•PAI-1 complexes that would form a covalent bond if denatured were reversible and existed in equilibrium with either non-complexed or loosely complexed reactants. These data suggest that scu-PA has more enzyme-like properties than previously appreciated and raises the possibility that it resembles single-chain tissue type-plasminogen activator in lacking a complete zymogen conformation.

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