title: Effects of monoclonal antibodies on tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) binding to lysine, fibrin and heparin and on fibrin-mediated enhancement of one-chain t-PA amidolytic activity.
abstract: The effects of 4 monoclonal antibodies against human tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) on binding of t-PA to lysine, fibrin, and heparin, and on fibrin-mediated activation of one-chain t-PA-amidolytic activity were investigated. The association constants of the antibodies were determined in a direct assay to be equal to 0.125 l/nmol, 0.225 l/nmol, 0.4 l/nmol, and 0.5 l/nmol for mAB 5, mAB 16, mAB 25, and mAB 31, respectively. All 4 monoclonal antibodies inhibited binding of intact t-PA to lysine-Sepharose and fibrin, and they suppressed fibrin-mediated activation of one-chain t-PA-amidolytic activity. Binding analysis demonstrated that mAB 25 inhibited t-PA binding to lysine-Sepharose and to fibrin as well as fibrin-mediated enhancement of one-chain t-PA-amidolytic activity in a competitive manner with inhibitor constants of 5 nmol/l, 3 nmol/l and 10 nmol/l, respectively. It was also shown that free lysine counteracts the association of t-PA with the antibodies. Binding of t-PA to heparin is only moderately affected by the 4 antibodies. Since t-PA possesses two homologous kringle domains which contain fibrin (lysine) binding sites, the results underline the importance of a lysine binding site for fibrin binding by intact t-PA and show that the binding of the enzyme to fibrin and lysine is mediated by the same binding site of a kringle domain. The parallel effects of antibodies on fibrin binding and on fibrin-mediated enhancement of one-chain t-PA amidolytic activity proves that the site of fibrin binding is identical with the site of fibrin activation. The binding site of heparin apparently differs from lysine and fibrin binding sites.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Enzymchemie, Zentralinstitutes für Molekularbiologie, Berlin-Buch.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Fischer
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Zacharias
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Will
mesh_terms: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000378:metabolism*; D001665:Binding Sites; D005337:Fibrin / Q000378:metabolism*; D006493:Heparin / Q000378:metabolism*; D008239:Lysine / Q000378:metabolism*; D010959:Tissue Plasminogen Activator / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D005337:Fibrin; D006493:Heparin; D010959:Tissue Plasminogen Activator; D008239:Lysine