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Liu C, Zhang K, Zhang S, Li X, Sun H, Ma L. Maggot Kinase and Natural Thrombolytic Proteins. ACS OMEGA 2024; 9:21768-21779. [PMID: 38799322 PMCID: PMC11112594 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.4c01663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2024] [Revised: 04/22/2024] [Accepted: 04/25/2024] [Indexed: 05/29/2024]
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Thrombolytic enzymes constitute a class of proteases with antithrombotic functions. Derived from natural products and abundant in nature, certain thrombolytic enzymes, such as urokinase, earthworm kinase, and streptokinase, have been widely used in the clinical treatment of vascular embolic diseases. Fly maggots, characterized by their easy growth and low cost, are a traditional Chinese medicine recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica. These maggots can also be used as raw material for the extraction and preparation of thrombolytic enzymes (maggot kinase). In this review, we assembled global research reports on natural thrombolytic enzymes through a literature search and reviewed the functions and structures of natural thrombolytic enzymes to provide a reference for natural thrombophilic drug screening and development.
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- Can Liu
- Key
Laboratory for Northern Urban Agriculture of Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Affairs of China, Beijing University
of Agriculture, Beijing 102206, PR China
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- Key
Laboratory for Northern Urban Agriculture of Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Affairs of China, Beijing University
of Agriculture, Beijing 102206, PR China
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- Key
Laboratory for Northern Urban Agriculture of Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Affairs of China, Beijing University
of Agriculture, Beijing 102206, PR China
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- Key
Laboratory for Northern Urban Agriculture of Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Affairs of China, Beijing University
of Agriculture, Beijing 102206, PR China
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- Key
Laboratory for Northern Urban Agriculture of Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Affairs of China, Beijing University
of Agriculture, Beijing 102206, PR China
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- Key
Laboratory for Northern Urban Agriculture of Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Affairs of China, Beijing University
of Agriculture, Beijing 102206, PR China
- Beijing
Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, Beijing University of Agriculture, Beijing 102206, PR China
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Expression of full-length human pro-urokinase in mammary glands of transgenic mice. Transgenic Res 2009; 18:747-56. [DOI: 10.1007/s11248-009-9269-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2008] [Accepted: 04/14/2009] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Choi-Miura NH, Yoda M, Saito K, Takahashi K, Tomita M. Identification of the substrates for plasma hyaluronan binding protein. Biol Pharm Bull 2001; 24:140-3. [PMID: 11217080 DOI: 10.1248/bpb.24.140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Plasma hyaluronan biding protein (PHBP) is a novel serine protease, which has an amino acid sequence homology to that of hepatocyte growth factor activator (HGFA), and has a similar domain structure to that of urinary plasminogen activator (u-PA), found in human plasma. We searched the PHBP substrate in human plasma by measuring the digested protein bands on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). The results showed that fibrinogen and fibronectin were the major substrates of PHBP. PHBP cleaved the alpha-chain at multiple sites and the beta-chain between lysine53 and lysine54 but not the gamma-chain of fibrinogen. Therefore, PHBP did not initiate the formation of the fibrin clot and did not cause the fibrinolysis directly. PHBP did not cleave (activate) prothrombin and plasminogen, but it converted the inactive single chain urinary plasminogen activator to the active two chain form.
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- N H Choi-Miura
- Department of Physiological Chemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Showa University, Tokyo, Japan.
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Thrombolytic therapy is well established in the management of a select group of atherothrombotic and thromboembolic diseases at the expense of definite but increased risk of intracranial hemorrhage. The incidence of intracranial hemorrhage is higher (6.4% to 20%) in the thrombolytic treatment of acute ischemic stroke, whereas the cerebral hemorrhagic complications of thrombolytic treatment in acute myocardial infarction, acute pulmonary embolism, deep venous thrombosis, and arterial and graft occlusion is less than 2%. Although systemic fibrinolysis after thrombolysis is responsible for hemorrhagic complications, many factors are implicated in predisposition to cerebral hemorrhagic complications such as old age, untreated or chronic hypertension, history of cardiac disease, hyperglycemia, patients with small body mass, previous stroke, longer therapeutic treatment window, increasing neurological deficit or severity of neurological deficit, higher thrombolytic dose and computed tomography findings of mass effect, edema, or extended infarct sign involving more than one third of the territory of the middle cerebral artery. Although the knowledge of different factors associated with intracranial hemorrhage is important, it is the judicious use and strict adherence of appropriate clinical protocols in different clinical settings of thrombolytic treatment and avoidance of the contra-indications that will minimize the rate of hemorrhagic complication to achieve good clinical outcome and desired benefit.
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- S C Patel
- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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The patient must be educated to seek medical attention promptly when this malady strikes, and the physician must likewise be taught to institute this therapy as soon as the patient is seen. Less than 6 years ago, it was strongly expressed that there was no rationale for attempting to restore blood flow in the coronary arteries in the setting of myocardial infarction. It was believed that once the diagnosis of myocardial infarction was made, it was too late to relieve myocardial fibers and avert myocyte necrosis. If this thinking and advice of "the damage has already occurred" and "it is too late" prevailed, it would not be known today that treatment of myocardial infarction with thrombolytic therapy within 6 hours of onset of symptoms significantly reduces mortality in comparison with optimal medical treatment (including heparin) without thrombolytic therapy. The concept of thrombolytic therapy is correct. Persistent investigative work in this area will result in better thrombolytic agents and greater dexterity in their use. The thrombolytic agents available today are good, and they can be used safely. To state that agents that have been established to be capable of thrombus resolution should not be used in the treatment of thrombosis is a true example of how not to proceed toward improvement. To be content to remain in the past will not permit entrance into the future.
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- W R Bell
- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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Yamagata H, Nakahama K, Suzuki Y, Kakinuma A, Tsukagoshi N, Udaka S. Use of Bacillus brevis for efficient synthesis and secretion of human epidermal growth factor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989; 86:3589-93. [PMID: 2786200 PMCID: PMC287183 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.86.10.3589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Using previously isolated Bacillus brevis strains that secrete large amounts of proteins but little protease into the medium, we have developed a host-vector system for very efficient synthesis and secretion of heterologous proteins. The multiple promoters and the signal-peptide-coding region of the MWP gene, a structural gene for one of the major cell wall proteins of B. brevis strain 47, were used to construct expression-secretion vectors. With this system, a synthetic gene for human epidermal growth factor (hEGF) was expressed efficiently and a large amount (0.24 g per liter of culture) of mature hEGF was secreted into the medium. hEGF purified from the culture supernatant had the same NH2-terminal amino acid sequence, COOH-terminal amino acid, and amino acid composition as natural hEGF, and it was fully active in biological assays. These results, in combination with previous results, showed that mammalian proteins can be produced in active form 10-100 times more efficiently in B. brevis than has been reported in other systems.
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- H Yamagata
- Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Nagoya University, Japan
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Plasminogen activators (PAs) are proteases that convert plasminogen to plasmin. Plasmin, in turn, is a protease that can lyse a fibrin clot and, therefore, PAs have a primary role in fibrinolysis. Two PAs, urokinase (UK) and streptokinase (SK), have been available for therapeutic use for years. Unfortunately, both can cause systemic fibrinogenolysis and other side effects which have limited their use. Interest has focused on a different enzyme, tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA), which will cause specific clot lysis without systemic problems. The gene for t-PA has been cloned and many biotechnology firms are preparing to produce t-PA for therapeutic use. The properties and potential for therapy of t-PA are reviewed and compared to new forms of other activators, such as pro-urokinase. How the interactions of PAs and inhibitors may affect the use of PAs is also discussed.
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- I J Hollander
- Immunoinflammatory Diseases Research, G. D. Searle Research and Development, Monsanto Life Sciences Research Center, St. Louis, Missouri
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Gannon F, Jeltsch JM, Bloch J, Krust A, Garnier JM, Bornert JM, Gilna P. Characterization of the expression of conalbumin and ovalbumin sequences cloned into the PstI site of pBR322. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1986; 469:18-30. [PMID: 3524396 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1986.tb26481.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Holmes WE, Pennica D, Blaber M, Rey MW, Guenzler WA, Steffens GJ, Heyneker HL. Cloning and Expression of the Gene for Pro-urokinase in Escherichia coli. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1985. [DOI: 10.1038/nbt1085-923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 188] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Jacobs P, Cravador A, Loriau R, Brockly F, Colau B, Chuchana P, van Elsen A, Herzog A, Bollen A. Molecular cloning, sequencing, and expression in Escherichia coli of human preprourokinase cDNA. DNA (MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC.) 1985; 4:139-46. [PMID: 3888571 DOI: 10.1089/dna.1985.4.139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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A cDNA library derived from human carcinoma cells was used to isolate a clone, pULB1000, coding for the preproenzyme form of human urokinase. This clone carries the full-length sequence coding for the signal peptide and for the A chain (157 amino acids) and B chain (253 amino acids) of urokinase in tandem. The sequence of the cDNA predicts the presence of a single lysine residue between the last amino acid of the mature A polypeptide (Phe-157) and the first amino acid of the mature B polypeptide (Ile-1). The amino acid sequence deduced from the cDNA sequence fits the published amino acid sequence data with three exceptions, the reported cysteine residue at position 131 in the A chain is a tryptophan, and glycine 366 and alanine 410 in the B chain are, respectively, a cysteine and a valine in our clone. A large Bgl I fragment (1482 bp), derived from the clone pULB1000 coding for most of the signal peptide and for the A and B chains, has been subcloned into the expression vector pCQV2. Heat induction of E. coli cells carrying the recombinant plasmid leads to the production of urokinase-like polypeptides having the expected molecular weights and being specifically recognized by antibodies raised against natural human urokinase.
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Rall LB, Bell GI, Caput D, Truett MA, Masiarz FR, Najarian RC, Valenzuela P, Anderson HD, Din N, Hansen B. Factor VIII:C synthesis in the kidney. Lancet 1985; 1:44. [PMID: 2856963 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(85)90987-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Danø K, Andreasen PA, Grøndahl-Hansen J, Kristensen P, Nielsen LS, Skriver L. Plasminogen activators, tissue degradation, and cancer. Adv Cancer Res 1985; 44:139-266. [PMID: 2930999 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-230x(08)60028-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1816] [Impact Index Per Article: 46.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Cederholm-Williams SA. Molecular biology of plasminogen activators and recombinant DNA progress. Bioessays 1984. [DOI: 10.1002/bies.950010408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Cederbaum SD, Fareed GC, Lovett MA, Shapiro LJ. Recombinant DNA in medicine. West J Med 1984; 141:210-22. [PMID: 6208695 PMCID: PMC1021739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Studies in bacteria and bacterial viruses have led to methods to manipulate and recombine DNA in unique and reproducible ways and to amplify these recombined molecules millions of times. Once properly identified, the recombinant DNA molecules can be used in various ways useful in medicine and human biology. There are many applications for recombinant DNA technology. Cloned complementary DNA has been used to produce various human proteins in microorganisms. Insulin and growth hormone have been extensively and successfully tested in humans and insulin has been licensed for sale. Mass production of bacterial and viral antigens with recombinant DNA technology is likely to provide safe and effective vaccines for some disorders for which there is no prevention. The cloned probes for the human alpha- and beta-globin loci, for specific disease genes, such as the Z allele of alpha-antitrypsin, and for random genomic sequences are proving useful for prenatally diagnosing human genetic disorders and preventing their clinical consequences.
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Malke H, Ferretti JJ. Streptokinase: cloning, expression, and excretion by Escherichia coli. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1984; 81:3557-61. [PMID: 6374659 PMCID: PMC345548 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.81.11.3557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Genomic DNA from Streptococcus equisimilis strain H46A was cloned in Escherichia coli by using the bacteriophage lambda replacement vector L47 and an in vitro packaging system. A casein/plasminogen overlay technique was used to screen the phage bank for recombinants carrying the streptokinase gene ( skc ). The gene was present with a frequency of 1 in 836 recombinants, and 10 independent clones containing skc were isolated and physically characterized. One recombinant clone was used to subclone skc in E. coli plasmid vectors. Plasmid pMF2 [10.4 kilobases (kb)] consisting of pACYC184 with a 6.4-kb H46A DNA fragment in the EcoRI site and pMF5 (6.9 kb) carrying a 2.5-kb fragment in the Pst I site of pBR322 were among the recombinant plasmids determining streptokinase production in three different E. coli host strains. Expression of skc was independent of its orientation in either vector, indicating that its own promoter was present and functional in E. coli. However, expression in pBR322 was more efficient in one orientation than in the other, suggesting that one or both of the bla gene promoters contributed to skc expression. Several lines of evidence, including proof obtained by the immunodiffusion technique, established the identity of E. coli streptokinase. Testing cell-free culture supernatant fluids, osmotic shock fluids, and sonicates of osmotically shocked cells for streptokinase activity revealed the substance to be present in all three principal locations, indicating that E. coli cells were capable of releasing substantial amounts of streptokinase into the culture medium.
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Salerno G, Verde P, Nolli ML, Corti A, Szöts H, Meo T, Johnson J, Bullock S, Cassani G, Blasi F. Monoclonal antibodies to human urokinase identify the single-chain pro-urokinase precursor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1984; 81:110-4. [PMID: 6364130 PMCID: PMC344620 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.81.1.110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Monoclonal antibodies have been obtained that recognize either the A or B chain of human urinary urokinase. These antibodies identify human urokinase-producing cells and the product of urokinase mRNA. Anti-urokinase monoclonal antibodies precipitate an approximately equal to 54,000-dalton protein synthesized in vitro in a rabbit reticulocyte cell-free system. This pro-urokinase appears to be the precursor of both A and B chains of human urinary urokinase. Urokinase mRNA in human kidney constitutes only 0.1% or less of total poly(A)+ RNA.
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Emtage JS, Angal S, Doel MT, Harris TJ, Jenkins B, Lilley G, Lowe PA. Synthesis of calf prochymosin (prorennin) in Escherichia coli. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1983; 80:3671-5. [PMID: 6304731 PMCID: PMC394112 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.80.12.3671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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A gene for calf prochymosin (prorennin) has been reconstructed from chemically synthesized oligodeoxyribonucleotides and cloned DNA copies of preprochymosin mRNA. This gene has been inserted into a bacterial expression plasmid containing the Escherichia coli tryptophan promoter and a bacterial ribosome binding site. Induction of transcription from the tryptophan promoter results in prochymosin synthesis at a level of up to 5% of total protein. The enzyme has been purified from bacteria by extraction with urea and chromatography on DEAE-cellulose and converted to enzymatically active chymosin by acidification and neutralization. Bacterially produced chymosin is as effective in clotting milk as the natural enzyme isolated from calf stomach.
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Chapter 26. Plasminogen Activators. ANNUAL REPORTS IN MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/s0065-7743(08)60781-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Molecular Cloning in Heterologous Systems. ADVANCES IN BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING/BIOTECHNOLOGY 1983. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-39694-0_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Kaltoft K, Nielsen LS, Zeuthen J, Danø K. Monoclonal antibody that specifically inhibits a human Mr 52,000 plasminogen-activating enzyme. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1982; 79:3720-3. [PMID: 6808514 PMCID: PMC346498 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.79.12.3720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Monoclonal antibodies against a human plasminogen activator of M(r) approximately 52,000 (HPA52) were derived by immunization of mice with an impure preparation of the enzyme (urokinase), subsequent hybridization of spleen cells with NSI-Ag4/1 myeloma cells, and cloning of the hybridomas. Selection of mice for hybridization and screening of hybridomas were based solely on direct inhibition of an enzymatic assay of the plasminogen activator with the impure enzyme preparation. A cloned hybridoma produced IgG1 antibodies that bound to and inhibited the enzymatic activity of HPA52 irrespective of whether the HPA52 was derived from urokinase or from human glioblastoma cells, whereas there was no inhibition of or binding to a plasminogen activator of M(r) approximately 70,000 from human melanoma cells or a plasminogen activator of M(r) approximately 36,000 that is a degradation product of HPA52 and present in urokinase. Nor did the anti-HPA52 IgG1 inhibit a murine plasminogen activator of M(r) approximately 48,000 derived from sarcoma virus-transformed cells. By using affinity chromatography with columns of anti-HPA52 IgG1 bound to Sepharose, HPA52 was purified from urokinase to homogeneity as evaluated by NaDodSO(4)/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. This study demonstrates that inhibitory monoclonal antibodies against enzymes can be derived with the sole use of impure enzyme preparations and shows how such antibodies subsequently can be used for enzyme purification.
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