Effect of purified, soluble urokinase receptor on the plasminogen‐prourokinase activation system
- 9 September 1996
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 393 (1), 31-36
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(96)00849-6
Abstract
The extracellular proteolytic pathway mediated by the urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) is a cascade system, initiated by activation of the zymogen, pro-uPA. Pro-uPA as well as uPA binds to the cellular uPA receptor (uPAR) which has a central function in cell-dependent acceleration of the cascade system. This role of uPAR is generally assumed to be a positioning effect since uPAR-expressing cells exclusively stimulate the activation of cell surface-bound plasminogen (Ellis et al. (1993) Methods Enzymol. 223, 223–233). However, it was recently reported that a recombinant, soluble uPAR (suPAR) was capable of accelerating plasminogen activation in solution (Higazi et al. (1995) J. Biol. Chem. 270, 17375–17380). In this work we show that suPAR as such has no accelerative role. In contrast, the progress of the activation reactions in a soluble system with pro-uPA and plasminogen was found to be attenuated by suPAR. This delay of the activation system was shown to include a partial inhibition of the plasmin-mediated activation of pro-uPA as well as of the uPA-mediated activation of plasminogen.This publication has 27 references indexed in Scilit:
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