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Flow Cytometry Analysis of Tissue Factor Expression in Human Platelets
Published on: November 22, 2024
Expression and characterization of Kunitz domain 3 and C-terminal of human tissue factor pathway inhibitor-2
Lina Zhu1, Jiping Wang, Jingui Mu
1Center of Analysis and Measurement, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
Abstract:
Human tissue factor pathway inhibitor-2 (hTFPI-2) is a serine protease inhibitor and its inhibitory activity is enhanced by heparin. The Kunitz domain 3 and Cterminal of hTFPI-2 (hTFPI-2/KD3C), which has the activity toward heparin calcium, have been successfully expressed in Pichia pastoris and purified by SPSepharose and heparin-Sepharose chromatography. The Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Raman spectroscopy, and circular dichroism (CD) experiment results implied that hTFPI-2/KD3C contained small contents of alpha-helix and beta-strand, but large amounts of random coil and two kinds of disulfide bonds, gauche-gauche-gauche (ggg) and trans-gauchetrans (tgt). The interaction of hTFPI-2/KD3C with heparin calcium was investigated by CD. It was found that heparin calcium induced b-strands in hTFPI-2/ KD3C to different extents depending on the ratio of hTFPI-2/KD3C and heparin calcium.
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