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BLOOD ADVANCES
卷 5, 期 23, 页码 5202-5214出版社
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DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2021004417.
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- US Department of Defense [W81XWH-15-1-0485]
- National Science Foundation [DMR-1847488]
- National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [1R01HL146701, R01HL130918-01A1]
Neonates have a variant of fibrinogen called fetal fibrinogen with increased sialic acid, greater negative charge, and decreased activity compared to adults. Sialic acid content is a key determinant of clot properties in neonates, influencing fibrin polymerization mechanisms significantly.
Neonates possess a molecular variant of fibrinogen, known as fetal fibrinogen, characterized by increased sialic acid, a greater negative charge, and decreased activity compared with adults. Despite these differences, adult fibrinogen is used for the treatment of bleeding in neonates, with mixed efficacy. To determine safe and efficacious bleeding protocols for neonates, more information on neonatal fibrin clot formation and the influence of sialic acid on these processes is needed. Here, we examine the influence of sialic acid on neonatal fibrin polymerization. We hypothesized that the increased sialic acid content of neonatal fibrinogen promotes fibrin B:b knob-hole interactions and consequently influences the structure and function of the neonatal fibrin matrix. We explored this hypothesis through analysis of structural properties and knob:hole poly-merization dynamics of normal and desialylated neonatal fibrin networks and compared them with those formed with adult fibrinogen. We then characterized normal neonatal fibrin knob:hole interactions by forming neonatal and adult clots with either thrombin or snake-venom thrombin-like enzymes that preferentially cleave fibrinopeptide A or B. Sialic acid content of neonatal fibrinogen was determined to be a key determinant of resulting clot properties. Experiments analyzing knob:hole dynamics indicated that typi-cal neonatal fibrin clots are formed with the release of more fibrinopeptide B and less fibrinopeptide A than adults. After the removal of sialic acid, fibrinopeptide release was roughly equivalent between adults and neonates, indicating the influence of sialic acid on fibrin neonatal fibrin polymerization mechanisms. These results could inform future studies developing neonatal-specific treatments of bleeding.
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