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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 50, Issue 45, Pages 9923-9927Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi201406c
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Synthetic peptides patterned on sequences that appear during thrombin proteolysis of fibrinogen are known to influence fibrin formation in very different ways. A-Knob sequences (GPR-) inhibit polymerization, but B-knob sequences (GHR-) can actually enhance the process. We now report that when such peptides are attached to albumin carriers, both knob conjugates inhibit fibrin formation. In contrast, the 2-aminoethylthiol-albumin conjugate control enhances the polymerization to the same degree as albumin. The peptide AHRPam, which is known to bind exclusively to the beta C holes of fibrinogen/fibrin, nullifies the inhibitory effects of the GHRPYGGGCam-albumin conjugate on fibrin polymerization, indicating that the inhibition was exclusively due to interactions with beta C holes. AHRPam was much less effective in countering inhibition by the GPRPGGGGCam-albumin conjugate, suggesting that the observed effects with this conjugate involve mainly the gamma C holes of fibrin/fibrinogen. This study demonstrates that peptides modeled on fibrin polymerization knobs tethered to albumin retain their capacity to interact with fibrinogen/fibrin and may prove useful as inhibitors of clotting in vivo.
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