A frequent human coagulation Factor VII mutation (A294V, c152) in loop 140s affects the interaction with activators, tissue factor and substrates

2002 ◽  
Vol 363 (2) ◽  
pp. 411-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaella TOSO ◽  
Mirko PINOTTI ◽  
Katherine A. HIGH ◽  
Eleanor S. POLLAK ◽  
Francesco BERNARDI

Activated Factor VII (FVIIa) is a vitamin-K-dependent serine protease that initiates blood clotting after interacting with its cofactor tissue factor (TF). The complex FVIIa—TF is responsible for the activation of Factor IX (FIX) and Factor X (FX), leading ultimately to the formation of a stable fibrin clot. Activated FX (FXa), a product of FVIIa enzymic activity, is also the most efficient activator of zymogen FVII. Interactions of FVII/FVIIa with its activators, cofactor and substrates have been investigated extensively to define contact regions and residues involved in the formation of the complexes. Site-directed mutagenesis and inhibition assays led to the identification of sites removed from the FVIIa active site that influence binding specificity and affinity of the enzyme. In this study we report the characterization of a frequent naturally occurring human FVII mutant, A294V (residue 152 in the chymotrypsin numbering system), located in loop 140s. This region undergoes major rearrangements after FVII activation and is relevant to the development of substrate specificity. FVII A294V shows delayed activation by FXa as well as reduced activity towards peptidyl and macromolecular substrates without impairing the catalytic efficiency of the triad. Also, the interaction of this FVII variant with TF was altered, suggesting that this residue, and more likely loop 140s, plays a pivotal role not only in the recognition of FX by the FVIIa—TF complex, but also in the interaction of FVII with both its activators and cofactor TF.

2019 ◽  
Vol 476 (19) ◽  
pp. 2909-2926
Author(s):  
Tina M. Misenheimer ◽  
Kraig T. Kumfer ◽  
Barbara E. Bates ◽  
Emily R. Nettesheim ◽  
Bradford S. Schwartz

Abstract The mechanism of generation of factor VIIa, considered the initiating protease in the tissue factor-initiated extrinsic limb of blood coagulation, is obscure. Decreased levels of plasma VIIa in individuals with congenital factor IX deficiency suggest that generation of VIIa is dependent on an activation product of factor IX. Factor VIIa activates IX to IXa by a two-step removal of the activation peptide with cleavages occurring after R191 and R226. Factor IXaα, however, is IX cleaved only after R226, and not after R191. We tested the hypothesis that IXaα activates VII with mutant IX that could be cleaved only at R226 and thus generate only IXaα upon activation. Factor IXaα demonstrated 1.6% the coagulant activity of IXa in a contact activation-based assay of the intrinsic activation limb and was less efficient than IXa at activating factor X in the presence of factor VIIIa. However, IXaα and IXa had indistinguishable amidolytic activity, and, strikingly, both catalyzed the cleavage required to convert VII to VIIa with indistinguishable kinetic parameters that were augmented by phospholipids, but not by factor VIIIa or tissue factor. We propose that IXa and IXaα participate in a pathway of reciprocal activation of VII and IX that does not require a protein cofactor. Since both VIIa and activated IX are equally plausible as the initiating protease for the extrinsic limb of blood coagulation, it might be appropriate to illustrate this key step of hemostasis as currently being unknown.


2002 ◽  
Vol 88 (07) ◽  
pp. 74-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu-wen Chen ◽  
Jean-François Schved ◽  
Jean-Luc Pellequer ◽  
Muriel Giansily-Blaizot

SummaryUpon binding to tissue factor, FVIIa triggers coagulation by activating vitamin K-dependent zymogens, factor IX (FIX) and factor X (FX). To understand recognition mechanisms in the initiation step of the coagulation cascade, we present a three-dimensional model of the ternary complex between FVIIa:TF:FIX. This model was built using a full-space search algorithm in combination with computational graphics. With the known crystallographic complex FVIIa:TF kept fixed, the FIX docking was performed first with FIX Gla-EGF1 domains, followed by the FIX protease/EGF2 domains. Because the FIXa crystal structure lacks electron density for the Gla domain, we constructed a chimeric FIX molecule that contains the Gla-EGF1 domains of FVIIa and the EGF2-protease domains of FIXa. The FVIIa:TF:FIX complex has been extensively challenged against experimental data including site-directed mutagenesis, inhibitory peptide data, haemophilia B database mutations, inhibitor antibodies and a novel exosite binding inhibitor peptide. This FVIIa:TF:FIX complex provides a powerful tool to study the regulation of FVIIa production and presents new avenues for developing therapeutic inhibitory compounds of FVIIa:TF:substrate complex.


1981 ◽  
Vol 45 (01) ◽  
pp. 055-059 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Østerud ◽  
C K Kasper ◽  
K K Lavine ◽  
C Prodanos ◽  
S I Rapaport

SummaryAn abnormal blood coagulation factor IX has been isolated from the blood of a hemophilia B patient with a variant of the disease (hemophilia Bm) characterized by a normal concentration of factor IX antigen, negligible factor IX coagulant activity, and a prolonged prothrombin time with bovine tissue factor. The isolated protein (factor IXBm) had the same apparent molecular weight as normal factor IX (55,000) and the same mobility on two dimensional immunoelectrophoresis as normal factor IX. Factor IXBm underwent limited proteolysis induced by activated factor XI, in the presence of Ca2+ ions, or induced by the reaction product of tissue factor, factor VII and Ca2+ ions. A timecourse study showed that activated factor XI cleaved factor IXBm and factor IX at similar rates. However, in contrast to normal factor IX, the limited protelysis of factor IXBm did not generate procoagulant activity.In kinetic experiments purified factor IXBm behaved like a competitive inhibitor (Ki of 0.017 μM) of the activation of factor X by bovine tissue factor and factor VII. Normal factor IX was also found to inhibit the reaction but required a four-fold higher concentration to achieve the same inhibitory effects as factor IXBm.


2000 ◽  
Vol 83 (05) ◽  
pp. 732-735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Cooper ◽  
Zhong Liang ◽  
Francis Castellino ◽  
Elliot Rosen

SummaryThe gene encoding murine coagulation factor X (fX) was isolated and characterized from a λFIX II library generated from murine genomic DNA. The 20130 bp sequence contains 18049 nucleotides that extend from the initiating methionine to the polyadenylation site. 1056 nucleotides 5’ of the start codon were determined and contain putative start sites for the FX mRNA as well as sites for binding of putative transcription factors. The sequence extends 1024 3’ of the polyadenylattion site.The gene contains 8 exons and 7 introns which were determined by comparing the mouse FX cDNA and gene sequences. The exonic structure of the gene is similar to that of the other mammalian vitamin K-dependent serine proteases of the coagulation system. These include an exon encoding the prepropepetide, the gladomain, a short helical stack, two exons for the two EGF domains, the activation pepetide, and two exons encoding the serine protease domain. The 5’ sequence of the mouse FX gene overlaps with the 3’ region of the FVII gene indicating that the murine FVII and FX gene are arranged in a head to tail arrangement as they are in humans. Abbreviations: fVII, coagulation factor VII; fIX, coagulation factor IX; fX, coagulation factor X; PC, Protein C; fV, coagulation factor V; fVa, activated coagulation factor V; fVIII, coagulation factor VIII; fVIIIa, activated coagulation factor VIII.


2000 ◽  
Vol 84 (11) ◽  
pp. 841-848 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Lyerly ◽  
Jeffrey Lawson ◽  
Christopher Rusconi ◽  
Alice Yeh ◽  
Bruce Sullenger

SummaryThe tissue factor/factor VIIa complex is thought to be the primary initiator of most physiologic blood coagulation events. Because of its proximal role in this process, we sought to generate new inhibitors of tissue factor/factor VIIa activity by targeting factor VIIa. We employed a combinatorial RNA library and in vitro selection methods to isolate a high affinity, nuclease-resistant RNA ligand that binds specifically to coagulation factor VII/VIIa. This RNA inhibits the tissue factordependent activation of factor X by factor VIIa. Kinetic analyses of the mechanism of action of this RNA suggest that it antagonizes factor VIIa activity by preventing formation of a functional factor VII/tissue factor complex. Furthermore, this RNA significantly prolongs the prothrombin time of human plasma in a dose dependent manner, and has an in vitro half-life of ∼15 h in human plasma. Thus, this RNA ligand represents a novel class of anticoagulant agents directed against factor VIIa.


2004 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 353-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew D. Mumford ◽  
John H. McVey

The interaction between cell-surface tissue factor (TF) and the plasma coagulation factor VII (FVII) initiates the coagulation network that leads to the generation of thrombin and the formation of a fibrin clot. Thrombin also activates cellular protease activated receptors (PARs) through which it activates components of the inflammatory pathway. TF is expressed constitutively by cardiomyocytes and evidence from mice transgenic for a human TF mini-gene that express very low levels of human TF suggests that the TF-FVII interaction is critical for haemostasis within the heart. Pathological contact between TF and FVII may occur in the heart during ischaemia-reperfusion (I-R) injury and this may lead to activation of coagulation and thrombin generation. Evidence from animal models now suggests that thrombin is an important mediator of inflammation in I-R injury. The coagulation pathway therefore represents a novel therapeutic target for intervention in the prevention of I-R injury.


2007 ◽  
Vol 92 (11) ◽  
pp. 4352-4358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guenther Boden ◽  
Vijender R. Vaidyula ◽  
Carol Homko ◽  
Peter Cheung ◽  
A. Koneti Rao

Abstract Context: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a hypercoagulable state. Tissue factor (TF) is the principal initiator of blood coagulation. Objective: Our objective was to examine the effects of hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia on the TF pathway of blood coagulation in T2DM. Design: Three study protocols were used: 1) acute correction of hyperglycemia (with iv insulin) followed by 24 h of euglycemia, 2) 24 h of selective hyperinsulinemia, and 3) 24 h of combined hyperinsulinemia and hyperglycemia. Setting: The study took place at a clinical research center. Study Participants: Participants included 18 T2DM patients and 22 nondiabetic controls. Results: Basal TF-procoagulant activity (TF-PCA), monocyte TF mRNA, plasma coagulation factor VII (FVIIc), and thrombin-anti-thrombin complexes were higher in T2DM than in nondiabetic controls, indicating a chronic procoagulant state. Acutely normalizing hyperglycemia over 2–4 h resulted in a small (∼7%) but significant decline in TF-PCA with no further decline over 24 h. Raising insulin levels alone raised TF-PCA by 30%, whereas raising insulin and glucose levels together increased TF-PCA (by 80%), thrombin-anti-thrombin complexes, and prothrombin fragment 1.2. Plasma FVIIa and FVIIc declined with increases in TF-PCA. Conclusion: We conclude that the combination of hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia, common in poorly controlled patients with T2DM, contributes to a procoagulant state that may predispose these patients to acute cardiovascular events.


Blood ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 204-212
Author(s):  
NL Sanders ◽  
SP Bajaj ◽  
A Zivelin ◽  
SI Rapaport

A study was carried out to explore requirements for the inhibition of tissue factor-factor VIIa enzymatic activity in plasma. Reaction mixtures contained plasma, 3H-factor IX or 3H-factor X, tissue factor (vol/vol 2.4% to 24%), and calcium. Tissue factor-factor VIIa activity was evaluated from progress curves of activation of factor IX or factor X, plotted from tritiated activation peptide release data. With normal plasma, progress curves exhibited initial limited activation followed by a plateau indicative of loss of tissue factor-factor VIIa activity. With hereditary factor X-deficient plasma treated with factor X antibodies, progress curves revealed full factor IX activation. Adding only 0.4 micrograms/mL factor X (final concentration) could restore inhibition. Inhibition was not observed in purified systems containing 6% to 24% tissue factor, factor VII, 0.5 micrograms/mL, factor IX, 13 micrograms/mL, and factor X up to 0.8 micrograms/mL, but could be induced by adding barium-absorbed plasma to the reaction mixture. Thus, both factor X and an additional material in plasma were required for inhibition. The amount of factor X needed appeared related to the concentration of tissue factor; adding more tissue factor at the plateau of a progress curve induced further activation. These results also indicate that inhibited reaction mixtures contained active free factor VII(a). Preliminary data suggest that inhibition may stem from loss of activity of the tissue factor component of the tissue factor- factor VII(a) complex.


Blood ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 204-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
NL Sanders ◽  
SP Bajaj ◽  
A Zivelin ◽  
SI Rapaport

Abstract A study was carried out to explore requirements for the inhibition of tissue factor-factor VIIa enzymatic activity in plasma. Reaction mixtures contained plasma, 3H-factor IX or 3H-factor X, tissue factor (vol/vol 2.4% to 24%), and calcium. Tissue factor-factor VIIa activity was evaluated from progress curves of activation of factor IX or factor X, plotted from tritiated activation peptide release data. With normal plasma, progress curves exhibited initial limited activation followed by a plateau indicative of loss of tissue factor-factor VIIa activity. With hereditary factor X-deficient plasma treated with factor X antibodies, progress curves revealed full factor IX activation. Adding only 0.4 micrograms/mL factor X (final concentration) could restore inhibition. Inhibition was not observed in purified systems containing 6% to 24% tissue factor, factor VII, 0.5 micrograms/mL, factor IX, 13 micrograms/mL, and factor X up to 0.8 micrograms/mL, but could be induced by adding barium-absorbed plasma to the reaction mixture. Thus, both factor X and an additional material in plasma were required for inhibition. The amount of factor X needed appeared related to the concentration of tissue factor; adding more tissue factor at the plateau of a progress curve induced further activation. These results also indicate that inhibited reaction mixtures contained active free factor VII(a). Preliminary data suggest that inhibition may stem from loss of activity of the tissue factor component of the tissue factor- factor VII(a) complex.


Blood ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 645-651 ◽  
Author(s):  
LV Rao ◽  
SI Rapaport

Abstract We have extended earlier studies (Blood 66:204, 1985) of a mechanism of inhibition of factor VIIa/tissue factor activity that requires a plasma component (called herein extrinsic pathway inhibitor or EPI) and factor Xa. An activated peptide release assay using 3H-factor IX as a substrate was used to evaluate inhibition. Increasing the tissue factor concentration from 20% to 40% (vol/vol) overcame the inhibitory mechanism in normal plasma but not in factor VII-deficient plasma supplemented with a low concentration of factor VII. A second wave of factor IX activation obtained by a second addition of tissue factor to plasma with a normal factor VII concentration was almost abolished by supplementing the reaction mixture with additional EPI and factor X. Factor Xa's active site was necessary for factor Xa's contribution to inhibition, but preliminary incubation of factor Xa with EPI in the absence of factor VIIa/tissue factor complex or of factor VIIa/tissue factor complex in the absence of EPI did not replace the need for the simultaneous presence of factor Xa, factor VIIa/tissue factor, calcium, and EPI in an inhibitory reaction mixture. Inhibition of factor VIIa/tissue factor was reversible; both tissue factor and factor VIIa activity could be recovered from a dissociated, inhibited factor VIIa/tissue factor complex. EPI appeared to bind to a factor VIIa/tissue factor complex formed in the presence of factor Xa but not to a factor VIIa/tissue factor complex formed in the absence of factor Xa.


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