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The regulation of tissue plasminogen activator activity by human fibroblasts.
We have found that live and ethanol-fixed fibroblasts, when covered with conditioned medium containing tissue plasminogen activator, associate with the enzyme and remove it from the medium. Binding of tissue plasminogen activator to fixed cells showed equilibrium kinetics with maximal uptake corresponding to 2.4 units of enzyme per 10(6) fixed cells. Enzyme bound to fixed cells could activate plasminogen and produce plaques of caseinolysis in casein-plasminogen-agar overlays. Electrophoretic analysis showed it covalently attached to a fibroblast component with a molecular weight of 40,000-50,000. Sequestration of tissue plasminogen activator by live fibroblasts showed nonsaturable first order kinetics with a rate constant of 0.465/hr. We conclude that active enzyme is bound to a surface receptor, then internalized and degraded. Fibroblasts did not release the binding molecule into the medium; binding of tissue plasminogen activator from the medium was unaffected by heparin or thrombin. This phenomenon differs from that described by Baker et al. and ascribed to "proteasenexin."[1]References
- The regulation of tissue plasminogen activator activity by human fibroblasts. Hoal, E.G., Wilson, E.L., Dowdle, E.B. Cell (1983) [Pubmed]
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