Probing the Dynamics of Clot-Bound Thrombin at Venous Shear Rates

In closed system models of fibrin formation, exosite-mediated thrombin binding to fibrin contributes to clot stability and is resistant to inhibition by antithrombin/heparin while still susceptible to small, active-site inhibitors. Each molecule of fibrin can bind ~1.6 thrombin molecules at low-affinity binding sites (K^sub d^ = 2.8 μM) and ~0.3 molecules of thrombin at high-affinity binding sites (K^sub d^ = 0.15 μM). The goal of this study is to assess the stability of fibrin-bound thrombin under venous flow conditions and to determine both its accessibility and susceptibility to inhibition. A parallel-plate flow chamber (7 x 50 x 0.25 mm) for studying the stability of thrombin (0-1400 nM) adhered to a fibrin matrix (0.1-0.4 mg/mL fibrinogen, 10 nM thrombin) under a variety of venous flow conditions was developed using the thrombin-specific, fluorogenic substrate SN-59 (100 μM). The flow within this system is laminar (R^sub e^ < 1) and reaction rates are driven by enzyme kinetics (P^sub e^ = 100, Da = 7000). A subpopulation of active thrombin remains stably adhered to a fibrin matrix over a range of venous shear rates (46-184 s^sup -1^) for upwards of 30 min, and this population is saturable at loads >500 nM and sensitive to the initial fibrinogen concentration. These observations were also supported by a mathematical model of thrombin adhesion to fibrin, which demonstrates that thrombin initially binds to the low-affinity thrombin binding sites before preferentially equilibrating to higher affinity sites. Antithrombin (2.6 μM) plus heparin (4 U/mL) inhibits 72% of the active clot-bound thrombin after ~10 min at 92 s^sup -1^, while no inhibition is observed in the absence of heparin. Dabigatran (20 and 200 nM) inhibits (50 and 93%) clot-bound thrombin reversibly (87 and 66% recovery). This model illustrates that clot-bound thrombin stability is the result of a constant rearrangement of thrombin molecules within a dense matrix of binding sites..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:112

Enthalten in:

Biophysical journal - 112(2017), 8, Seite P1634

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Laura M Haynes [VerfasserIn]
Thomas Orfeo [Sonstige Person]
Kenneth G Mann [Sonstige Person]
Stephen J Everse [Sonstige Person]
Kathleen E Brummel-Ziedins [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

Affinity
Antithrombin
Balancing
Binding sites
Biophysics
Enzyme kinetics
Fibrin
Fibrinogen
Flow
Flow stability
Heparin
Inhibition
Kinetics
Laminar flow
Loads (forces)
Mathematical analysis
Mathematical models
Matrix methods
Molecules
Reaction kinetics
Stability analysis
Thrombin

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1994697830