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BLOOD
Volume 135, Issue 19, Pages 1704-1717Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood.2019004267
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [R01HL126974, R61HL141791, U01HL143403]
- NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences [R01ES017537]
- NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases [R01DK112778]
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Obesity is a prevalent prothrombotic risk factor marked by enhanced fibrin formation and suppressed fibrinolysis. Fibrin both promotes thrombotic events and drives obesity pathophysiology, but a lack of essential analytical tools has left fibrinolytic mechanisms affected by obesity poorly defined. Using a plasmin-specific fluorogenic substrate, we developed a plasmin generation (PG) assay for mouse plasma that is sensitive to tissue plasminogen activator, alpha(2)-antiplasmin, active plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-1), and fibrin formation, but not fibrin crosslinking. Compared with plasmas from mice fed a control diet, plasmas from mice fed a high-fat diet (HFD) showed delayed PG and reduced PG velocity. Concurrent to impaired PG, HFD also enhanced thrombin generation (TG). The collective impact of abnormal TG and PG in HFD-fed mice produced normal fibrin formation kinetics but delayed fibrinolysis. Functional and proteomic analyses determined that delayed PG in HFD-fedmice was not due to altered levels of plasminogen, alpha(2)-antiplasmin, or fibrinogen. Changes in PG were also not explained by elevated PAI-1 because active PAI-1 concentrations required to inhibit the PG assay were 100-fold higher than circulating concentrations in mice. HFD-fed mice had increased circulating thrombomodulin, and inhibiting thrombomodulin or thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) normalized PG, revealing a thrombomodulin- and TAFI-dependent antifibrinolytic mechanism. Integrating kinetic parameters to calculate the metric of TG/PG ratio revealed a quantifiable net shift toward a prothrombotic phenotype in HFD-fed mice. Integrating TG and PG measurements may define a prothrombotic risk factor in diet-induced obesity.
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