[The construction and characterization of human pro-urokinase mutant]

Sheng Wu Gong Cheng Xue Bao. 2005 Jul;21(4):573-8.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

It is very easy for the pro-UK to lose it's biological activity because of the digestion of pro-UK by the thrombin or the inhibition of pro-UK by the PAI-I. So three pro-UK mutant (pro-UK) genes were constructed in this experiment with the PCR point-mutant method. The thrombin cleavage site Arg156 in pro-UK was mutated into His156, and named as pro-UKM1; PAI binding sites Arg178, Arg179, Arg181 were mutated into Lys178, Lys179, His181, named as pro-UKM2; The mutant containing His156, Lys178, Lys179, His181 as pro-UKM3. Three mutants were expressed in CHO cells respectively and analyzed with SDS-PAGE fibrin plate assay and western blot. The results showed that the three mutants and the native pro-UK have the same single electrophoresis band indicating most of the pro-UK was single chain. In vitro plasma clot lysis assays indicated that the pro-UKM1 have the ability to resistant against thrombin digestion; pro-UK2 could resist against PAI inhibition; while pro-UK3 improved resistances against both thrombin and PAI. It looks very promising that the pro-UK3 can be a new medicine of dissolving thrombus.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Base Sequence
  • Blotting, Western
  • CHO Cells
  • Cloning, Molecular
  • Cricetinae
  • Cricetulus
  • Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
  • Humans
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Mutant Proteins / biosynthesis
  • Mutant Proteins / genetics*
  • Recombinant Proteins / biosynthesis
  • Recombinant Proteins / genetics
  • Transfection*
  • Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator / biosynthesis
  • Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator / genetics*

Substances

  • Mutant Proteins
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator
  • saruplase