title: Energetics of thrombin-fibrinogen interaction.
abstract: The kinetic mechanism of thrombin-fibrinogen interaction has been elucidated by steady-state measurements of synthetic substrate hydrolysis by human alpha-thrombin in the presence of human fibrinogen used as a competitive inhibitor and sucrose used as a viscogenic agent. Sucrose greatly affects the FKm for thrombin-fibrinogen interaction, without altering the intrinsic properties of the system. Under conditions of pH 7.5 and 0.1 M NaCl, fibrinogen behaves like a sticky substrate for thrombin, with acylation being comparable to dissociation in the temperature range 20-37 degrees C. In the same temperature range, deacylation is much faster than acylation. The van't Hoff enthalpy of binding for thrombin-fibrinogen interaction is -24 +/- 3 kcal/mol and the entropy is -55 +/- 11 cal mol-1 deg-1. A chemical compensation effect is present in the binding of fibrinogen and synthetic amide substrates to thrombin, with the delta H and delta G values being linked through a linear relationship.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110.
authors.forename: K P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Hopfner
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Di Cera
mesh_terms: D005340:Fibrinogen / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D006868:Hydrolysis; D007700:Kinetics; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D013816:Thermodynamics; D013917:Thrombin / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D005340:Fibrinogen; D013917:Thrombin