title: Binding of human factor VIII to phospholipid vesicles.
abstract: Factor VIII, a protein cofactor involved in blood coagulation, functions in vitro on a phospholipid membrane surface to greatly increase the rate of factor X activation by factor IXa. Using gel filtration, rapid sedimentation, and resonance energy transfer we have studied the interaction of recombinant-derived human factor VIII with small and large unilamellar phospholipid vesicles composed of phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylcholine. Resonance energy transfer, from intrinsic fluorophores in factor VIII to dansyl-phosphatidylethanolamine incorporated into vesicles, has been adapted for quantitative equilibrium measurements. Factor VIII binds rapidly and reversibly to small and large vesicles. At 8 degrees C the interaction of factor VIII with small vesicles fits a simple bimolecular model with a KD of 2 nM and a phospholipid binding site defined by 180 phospholipid monomers. At 25 degrees C the binding of factor VIII to small vesicles containing 20% phosphatidylserine can be described by an apparent KD of 4 nM; the phospholipid/protein ratio at saturation was 170. Binding to large vesicles was demonstrated with a KD of 2 nM and a phospholipid/protein ratio at saturation of 385. Binding was dependent upon the phosphatidylserine mole fraction and was nonlinear from 0 to 30% phosphatidylserine content. A direct comparison of factor VIII and factor V binding indicated that the affinity of factor V to phospholipid vesicles was equivalent to that of factor VIII and that the phosphatidylserine requirement was lower. A model is proposed to explain the nonlinear phosphatidylserine dependence of binding for factor VIII.
authors.affiliation: Center for Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research, New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: G E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Gilbert
authors.forename: B C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Furie
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Furie
mesh_terms: D002850:Chromatography, Gel; D003619:Dansyl Compounds / Q000378:metabolism; D004735:Energy Transfer; D005169:Factor VIII / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D010713:Phosphatidylcholines / Q000378:metabolism; D010718:Phosphatidylserines / Q000378:metabolism; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000378:metabolism*; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence
chemical_list: D003619:Dansyl Compounds; D010713:Phosphatidylcholines; D010718:Phosphatidylserines; D010743:Phospholipids; D005169:Factor VIII