title: Down-regulation of the clotting cascade by the protein C pathway.
abstract: The protein C pathway provides important biological activities to maintain the fluidity of the circulation, prevent thrombosis, and protect the integrity of the vasculature in response to injury. Activated protein C (APC), in concert with its cofactors and cell receptors, assembles in specific macromolecular complexes to provide efficient proteolysis of multiple substrates that result in anticoagulant and cytoprotective activities. Numerous studies on APC's structure-function relation with its cofactors, cell receptors, and substrates provide valuable insights into the molecular mechanisms and presumed assembly of the macromolecular complexes that are responsible for APC's activities. These insights allow for molecular engineering approaches specifically targeting the interaction of APC with one of its substrates or cofactors. Thus far, these approaches resulted in several anticoagulant-selective and cytoprotective-selective APC mutants, which provide unique insights into the relative contributions of APC's anticoagulant or cytoprotective activities to the beneficial effects of APC in various murine injury and disease models. Because of its multiple physiological and pharmacological activities, the anticoagulant and cytoprotective protein C pathway have important implications for the (patho)physiology of vascular disease and for translational research exploring novel therapeutic strategies to combat complex medical disorders such as thrombosis, inflammation, ischemic stroke and neurodegenerative disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Fabian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Stavenuiter
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Eveline A M
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Bouwens
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Laurent O
authors.initials: LO
authors.lastname: Mosnier
keywords: activated protein C; anticoagulant; endothelial protein C receptor; factor V; factor VIII; protease activated receptor 1; protein S
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