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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 286, Issue 41, Pages 35535-35542Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.260141
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- National Institutes of Health [GM32707, HL 072827, HL43106]
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Constituents of platelet membranes regulate the activity of the prothrombinase complex. We demonstrate that membranes containing phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) bind factor Va with high affinity (K-d = similar to 10 nM) in the absence of phosphatidylserine (PS). These membranes support formation of a 60-70% functional prothrombinase complex at saturating factor Va concentrations. Although reduced interfacial packing does contribute to factor Va binding in the absence of PS, it does not correlate with the enhanced activity of the Xa-Va complex assembled on PE-containing membranes. Instead, specific protein-PE interactions appear to contribute to the effects of PE. In support of this, soluble C6PE binds to recombinant factor Va(2) (K-d = similar to 6.5 mu M) and to factor Xa (K-d = similar to 91 mu M). C6PE and C6PS binding sites of factor Xa are specific, distinct, and linked, because binding of one lipid enhances the binding and activity effects of the other. C6PE triggers assembly (K-d(app) = similar to 40 nM) of a partially active prothrombinase complex between factor Xa and factor Va(2), compared with K-d(app) for C6PS similar to 2 nM. These findings provide new insights into the possible synergistic roles of platelet PE and PS in regulating thrombin formation, particularly when exposed membrane PS may be limiting.
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