title: Vascular anticoagulant beta: a novel human Ca2+/phospholipid binding protein that inhibits coagulation and phospholipase A2 activity. Its molecular cloning, expression and comparison with VAC-alpha.
abstract: A cDNA was cloned coding for a new member of the human Ca2+-modulated phospholipid-binding protein family termed annexins. Due to its 56% identity to the human vascular anticoagulant (VAC) the new protein is named VAC-beta, renaming the previous VAC as VAC-alpha. Northern analysis detects one hybridizing mRNA species of 2.2 kb in human placenta. Genomic Southern blot analysis shows a VAC-beta gene of comparable complexity to the VAC-alpha gene. The cDNA was expressed in Escherichia coli and the recombinant protein purified to homogeneity. Antiserum raised against VAC-beta weakly cross-reacts with VAC-alpha. The properties of VAC-beta as an anticoagulant and as an inhibitor of phospholipase A2 activity were analyzed and compared to those of VAC-alpha.
authors.affiliation: Ernst Boehringer Institut für Arzneimittelforschung, Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hauptmann
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Maurer-Fogy
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Krystek
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bodo
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Andree
authors.forename: C P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Reutelingsperger
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D017302:Annexins; D001483:Base Sequence; D001777:Blood Coagulation; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004247:DNA / Q000032:analysis; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000378:metabolism; D015870:Gene Expression; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010455:Peptides / Q000032:analysis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D010740:Phospholipases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors*; D010741:Phospholipases A / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors*; D054467:Phospholipases A2; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D017302:Annexins; D010455:Peptides; D010743:Phospholipids; D004247:DNA; D010740:Phospholipases; D010741:Phospholipases A; D054467:Phospholipases A2