title: Isolation, identification and pharmacokinetic properties of human tissue-type plasminogen activator species: possible localisation of a clearance recognition site.
abstract: Purified preparations of recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) from the recombinant Bowes melanoma cell line TRBM6 were shown to contain multiple species of plasminogen activator. Using a combination of chromatography on Sephadex G25, Sephadex G75 and Heparin Sepharose CL6B we have isolated two fibrinolytically active species, which, under non-reduced SDS PAGE, have apparent Mr = 38,000 and 56,000. Double immunodiffusion studies indicated that both species were closely related to both the t-PA B chain and t-PA itself. N-terminal sequencing identified the Mr = 38,000 species as ala160- t-PA (essentially delta FGKI t-PA) and the Mr = 56,000 species as ser1-tyr2-gln3-glyx-cys51 t-PA (delta F t-PA), the latter probably produced by alternative splicing of the t-PA gene. The pharmacokinetic properties of N,N dimethyl-4-aminobenzoyl (DAB) derivatives of these activators and native t-PA were determined in the guinea pig. Whereas DAB----delta F t-PA showed a similar, rapid plasma disappearance profile to that of DAB----t-PA, DAB----delta FGKI t-PA was cleared significantly slower. These results suggest that a rapid clearance recognition site resides on either the growth factor or kringle 1, or both, domains of t-PA.
mesh_terms: D000215:Acylation; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D002461:Cell Line, Transformed; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D010959:Tissue Plasminogen Activator / Q000032:analysis / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics
chemical_list: D010959:Tissue Plasminogen Activator