scholarly journals Synthesis and secretion of plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 by human endothelial cells in vitro. Effect of active site mutagenized tissue-type plasminogen activator.

1991 ◽  
Vol 266 (2) ◽  
pp. 792-797
Author(s):  
K Bartha ◽  
P J Declerck ◽  
H Moreau ◽  
L Nelles ◽  
D Collen
Stroke ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Liu ◽  
Xiang Fan ◽  
Helen Brogren ◽  
Ming-Ming Ning ◽  
Eng H Lo ◽  
...  

Aims: Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) is the main and potent endogenous tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) inhibitor, but an important question on whether PAI-1 in blood stream responds and interferes with the exogenously administered tPA remains unexplored. We for the first time investigated temporal profiles of PAI-1 concentration and activity in circulation after stroke and tPA administration in rats. Methods: Permanent MCAO focal stroke of rats were treated with saline or 10mg/kg tPA at 3 hours after stroke (n=10 per group). Plasma (platelet free) PAI-1 antigen and activity levels were measured by ELISA at before stroke, 3, 4.5 (1.5 hours after saline or tPA treatments) and 24 hours after stroke. Since vascular endothelial cells and platelets are two major cellular sources for PAI-1 in circulation, we measured releases of PAI-1 from cultured endothelial cells and isolated platelets after direct tPA (4 μg/ml) exposures for 60 min in vitro by ELISA (n=4 per group). Results: At 3 hours after stroke, both plasma PAI-1 antigen and activity were significantly increased (3.09±0.67, and 3.42±0.57 fold of before stroke baseline, respectively, all data are expressed as mean±SE). At 4.5 hours after stroke, intravenous tPA administration significantly further elevated PAI-1 antigen levels (5.26±1.24), while as expected that tPA neutralized most elevated PAI-1 activity (0.33±0.05). At 24 hours after stroke, PAI-1 antigen levels returned to the before baseline level, however, there was a significantly higher PAI-1 activity (2.51±0.53) in tPA treated rats. In vitro tPA exposures significantly increased PAI-1 releases into culture medium in cultured endothelial cells (1.65±0.08) and platelets (2.02±0.17). Conclution: Our experimental results suggest that tPA administration may further elevate stroke-increased blood PAI-1 concentration, but also increase PAI-1 activity at late 24 hours after stroke. The increased PAI-1 releases after tPA exposures in vitro suggest tPA may directly stimulate PAI-1 secretions from vascular walls and circulation platelets, which partially contributes to the PAI-1 elevation observed in focal stroke rats. The underlying regulation mechanisms and pathological consequence need further investigation.


2016 ◽  
Vol 116 (12) ◽  
pp. 1032-1040 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohua Zhou ◽  
Maarten L. V. Hendrickx ◽  
Gholamreza Hassanzadeh-Ghassabeh ◽  
Serge Muyldermans ◽  
Paul J. Declerck

SummaryPlasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1) is the principal physiological inhibitor of tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) and has been identified as a risk factor in cardiovascular diseases. In order to generate nanobodies against PAI-1 to interfere with its functional properties, we constructed three nanobody libraries upon immunisation of three alpacas with three different PAI-1 variants. Three panels of nanobodies were selected against these PAI-1 variants. Evaluation of the amino acid sequence identity of the complementarity determining region-3 (CDR3) reveals 34 clusters in total. Five nanobodies (VHH-s-a98, VHH-2w-64, VHH-s-a27, VHH-s-a93 and VHH-2g-42) representing five clusters exhibit inhibition towards PAI-1 activity. VHH-s-a98 and VHH-2w-64 inhibit both glycosylated and non-glycosylated PAI-1 variants through a substrate-inducing mechanism, and bind to two different regions close to αhC and the hinge region of αhF; the profibrinolytic effect of both nanobodies was confirmed using an in vitro clot lysis assay. VHH-s-a93 may inhibit PAI-1 activity by preventing the formation of the initial PAI-1•t-PA complex formation and binds to the hinge region of the reactive centre loop. Epitopes of VHH-s-a27 and VHH-2g-42 could not be deduced yet. These five nanobodies interfere with PAI-1 activity through different mechanisms and merit further evaluation for the development of future profibrinolytic therapeutics.


1992 ◽  
Vol 67 (01) ◽  
pp. 101-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
B J Potter van Loon ◽  
D C Rijken ◽  
E J P Brommer ◽  
A P C van der Maas

SummaryThrombolytic therapy successfully reopens obstructed blood vessels in the majority of cases. However, it is not known why a substantial amount of thrombi are resistant to lysis by a fibrinolytic agent. In vitro studies have demonstrated that tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) and plasminogen incorporated in the clot (during formation) increase lysibility. To test whether lysibility of in vivo formed human thrombi is related to their composition, we studied 25 venous thrombi obtained at autopsy and 21 arterial thrombi obtained during embolectomy.Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) antigen was measured in a phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) extract of each thrombus; t-PA antigen and plasminogen antigen were determined in a 6 M urea extract of the thrombus, representing bound proteins. Lysibility was measured as weight reduction during 8 h of incubation in PBS containing streptokinase (SK) 100 U/ml, corrected for spontaneous lysis, reflected by weight loss in PBS without SK. In addition, lysibility in SK was compared with lysibility in urokinase (UK) 100 U/ml and in t-PA 200 U/ml.Spontaneous lysis amounted to 29 ± 5% (mean ± SEM) and 33 ± 5% in venous and arterial thrombi, respectively, and inversely correlated with the PAI-1 content of thrombi (r = —0.43, p <0.01). Lysibility amounted to 76 ± 6% in venous and 90 ± 4% in arterial thrombi (venous vs. arterial: p = 0.051). PAI-1-, plasminogen- and t-PA-content of venous thrombi were 902 ± 129 ng, 34.3 ± 4.8 pg and 26.7 ± 3.0 ng per gram of wet thrombus respectively; for arterial thrombi these values were 2,031 ± 401 ng/g (p = 0.011), 64.1 ± 11.4 pg/g (p = 0.088) and 62.2 ± 8.3 ng/g (p = 0.0001), respectively. A correlation was found between t-PA and plasminogen (r = 0.74, p <0.001). Lysibility by SK related to plasminogen content in both venous (r = 0.60, p <0.002) and arterial (r = 0.44, p <0.05) thrombi; PAI-1 and t-PA did not correlate with lysibility. Lysibility in the chosen concentrations of SK, UK and t-PA were similar.We conclude that spontaneous lysis of thrombi in saline is dependent on PAI-1 content and that susceptibility of thrombibi to lysis by SK ex vivo is dependent on the plasminogen content


1992 ◽  
Vol 68 (05) ◽  
pp. 486-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malou Philips ◽  
Anne-Grethe Juul ◽  
Johan Selmer ◽  
Bent Lind ◽  
Sixtus Thorsen

SummaryA new assay for functional plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1) in plasma was developed. The assay is based on the quantitative conversion of PAI-1 to urokinase-type plasminogen activator (u-PA)-PAI-l complex the concentration of which is then determined by an ELISA employing monoclonal anti-PAI-1 as catching antibody and monoclonal anti-u-PA as detecting antibody. The assay exhibits high sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, and precision. The level of functional PAI-1, tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) activity and t-PA-PAI-1 complex was measured in normal subjects and in patients with venous thromboembolism in a silent phase. Blood collection procedures and calibration of the respective assays were rigorously standardized. It was found that the patients had a decreased fibrinolytic capacity. This could be ascribed to high plasma levels of PAI-1. The release of t-PA during venous occlusion of an arm for 10 min expressed as the increase in t-PA + t-PA-PAI-1 complex exhibited great variation and no significant difference could be demonstrated between the patients with a thrombotic tendency and the normal subjects.


1995 ◽  
Vol 268 (6) ◽  
pp. E1065-E1069 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Yamashita ◽  
D. N. Darlington ◽  
E. J. Weeks ◽  
R. O. Jones ◽  
D. S. Gann

Large hemorrhage leads to hypercoagulability, a phenomenon that has never been well explained. Because an elevation of plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI)-1 increases procoagulant activity, we have determined whether plasma PAI activity and tissue PAI-1 mRNA are elevated after hemorrhage. Sprague-Dawley rats were bled (20 or 15 ml/kg) 4 days after cannulation. Plasma PAI activity was determined by the capacity of plasma to inhibit tissue-type plasminogen activator activity. Changes of PAI-1 mRNA in various tissues were detected by high-performance liquid chromatography after reverse transcription and polymerase chain reaction. Hemorrhage (20 ml/kg) significantly elevated plasma PAI activity at 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 6, and 8 h after hemorrhage and PAI-1 mRNA in liver at 1, 2, 4, and 6 h after hemorrhage. The PAI-1 message was also significantly elevated in lung, heart, and kidney at 4 h after hemorrhage. The increases of PAI-1 mRNA after 20 ml/kg hemorrhage were significantly greater than those after 15 ml/kg hemorrhage. These findings indicate that large hemorrhage can induce the increases in PAI activity and PAI-1 message and suggest that induction of PAI-1 may be involved in the thrombogenic responses observed after large hemorrhage.


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