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JOURNAL OF THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 121-131Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-7836.2008.03218.x
Keywords
endothelial cells; mesothelial cells; plasmin; thrombin; tissue factor; tissue factor pathway inhibitor
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- National Institutes of Health [HL58869, HL65500, HL76406]
- NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE [R01HL058869, R01HL065500, P01HL076406] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Background: Mesothelial cells that line the thoracic cavity play an important role in maintaining the local balance between procoagulant and fibrinolytic activity, a role akin to the endothelial cells in blood vessels. The mechanism(s) responsible for increased tissue factor (TF) expression in mesothelial cells in response to injury are at present unclear. Objective: To investigate whether plasmin or thrombin, two major proteases that may be generated on the pleural surface upon injury, induce TF expression in human pleural mesothelial cells (HMC) and elucidate the underlying mechanism(s). Methods: Confluent monolayers of HMC and human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) were exposed to plasmin or thrombin for varying time periods and TF expression was analyzed by measuring its activity in a factor Xa generation assay, TF antigen levels by immunoblot analysis and TF mRNA by Northern blot analysis. Results: Both plasmin and thrombin treatments increased cell surface TF activity in HMC by 3- to 4-fold. In contrast to thrombin, plasmin-induced TF activity is not dependent on the de novo synthesis of TF. In HUVEC, plasmin had a minimal effect on unperturbed HUVEC whereas it markedly increased TF activity of activated HUVEC. Plasmin treatment neither affected anionic phospholipid levels at the cell surface nor released protein disulfide isomerase, an oxidoreductase protein that was newly described to play a role in TF activation. Plasmin cleaved cell-associated TFPI. Conclusion: Thrombin up-regulates TF activity in HMC through the transcriptional activation of TF whereas plasmin increases TF activity by inactivating the cell-associated TFPI by a limited proteolysis.
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