Formulation | 50%glycerol/water(v/v) |
Storage | -20°C |
Purity | >95%bySDS-PAGE |
ActivityDetermination | N/A |
ShelfLife(properlystored) | 12months |
Gel | Novex4-12%Bis-Tris |
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Load | 1µgperlane;purifiedhumanprothrombin |
Buffer | MOPS |
Standard | SeeBluePlus2;Myosin(191kDa),PhosphorylaseB(97kDa),BSA(64kDa),GlutamicDehydrogenase(51kDa),AlcoholDehydrogenase(39kDa),CarbonicAnhydrase(28kDa),MyoglobinRed(19kDa),Lysozyme(14kDa) |
ProthrombinisavitaminK-dependentplasmaproteinwhichissynthesizedintheliver(1).Priortosecretionintoplasma,prothrombinundergoespost-translationalmodificationbyavitaminK-dependentcarboxylasewhichconvertstenspecificglutamicacidresiduestoγ-carboxyglutamicacid(gla).Thetenglaresiduesarelocatedwithinthefirst40aminoacidsofthematureproteinandcontributetotheABIlityofprothrombintobindtonegativelychargedphospholipidmembranes.Prothrombincontainstworegionsofinternalhomologywhicharereferredtoas"kringle"structures.Theseregionsofconspicuoussecondarystructurearelocatedbetweenresidues40and270ofthematureplasmaproteinandreplacethegrowthfactordomainsfoundinseveralotherplasmaserineproteases.Thusfar,nofunctionhasbeenascribedtotheseregions,butthereissUSPicionthattheymayplayaroleinoneofseveralbinaryproteininteractionsinvolvingprothrombin.Thematuresinglechainproteincirculatesinplasmaasazymogenand,duringcoagulation,isproteolyticallyactivatedtothepotentserineproteaseα-thrombin.Thisproteolysisiscatalyzedbytheprothrombinaseenzymecomplex.Duringactivation,prothrombiniscleavedatArg271-Thr272(human)/Arg273-Thr274(bovine)andatArg320-Ser321(human)/Arg323-Ser324(bovine)toa"pro"fragment(fragment1.2)andthrombin,thelatterofwhichiscomposedoftwochainscovalentlylinkedbyadisulfidebond.Inthecaseofhumanprothrombin/thrombin,thereisanadditionalthrombinfeed-backcleavageatArg284-Thr285resultinginanadditional13aminoacidsbeingremovedfromthematurethrombin“A”chain.
HumanprothrombinispreparedfromfreshfrozenhumanplasmaasdescribedbyBajajandcoworkers(2).BovineprothrombinispreparedfromfreshbovineplasmausingamodificationoftheproceduredescribedbyOwenandcoworkers(3).Purifiedprothrombinissuppliedin50%(vol/vol)glycerol/H2Oandshouldbestoredat-20oC.PurityisdeterminedbySDS-PAGEanalysis,andactivityismeasuredbyclottingand/orchromogenicsubstrateassay,followingconversionofprothrombintothrombin.
Localization | Plasma | |||||||
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Plasmaconcentration | 100µg/ml(1) | |||||||
Molecularweight | 72,000(1,4,5). Fragments: ProthrombinFragment1-21,700 ProthrombinFragment2-12,866 ProthrombinFragment1.2-34,566 PrethrombinFragement1-49,900 PrethrombinFragment2-37,580 | |||||||
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Isoelectricpoint | 4.7-4.9(human)(6) 4.4-4.9(bovine)(6) | |||||||
Structure | singlechain,NH2-terminalgladomain,twokringleregions | |||||||
Percentcarbohydrate | 8.2%(human)(4) 10.0%(bovine)(5) | |||||||
Post-translationalmodifications | tenglaresidues(4,5) |
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