Kanagasabai Vadivel1, Yogesh Kumar1, Matthew W Bunce2, Rodney M Camire2, Madhu S Bajaj3, S Paul Bajaj1,4. 1. UCLA/Orthopaedic Hospital Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 2. The Center for Cell and Molecular Therapeutics, Division of Hematology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 3. Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonology and Critical Care, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 4. Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Factor V (FV) B-domain contains an acidic region (FV-AR2) and a basic region (FV-BR), which interact with each other and maintain FV in a procofactor form; removal of either region via deletion/proteolysis results in an active FVa molecule. Tissue factor pathway inhibitor type-1 (TFPI) and type-2 (TFPI2) each contain a C-terminus basic segment homologous to FV-BR; this region in TFPI (and predicted in TFPI2) binds to FV-AR2 in platelet FVa (that lacks FV-BR) with high affinity and inhibits FVa function. OBJECTIVES: To understand molecular interactions between FV-AR2 with FV-BR, TFPI-BR and TFPI2-BR. METHODS: Circular dichroism (CD) and molecular modeling approaches. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: CD experiments reveal the presence of ∼20% helical content in both FV-AR2 and FV-BR but each lacks beta-sheet. Predicted structures of FV-AR2 and FV-BR, obtained using threading (I-TASSER), are consistent with the CD data and have compact folds with hydrophobic residues in the interior and charged residues on the surface. Scores from QMEAN and ModFOLD servers indicate a very high probability for each structure to be native. Predicted models of Kunitz domain-3 of TFPI and TFPI2 each with C-terminal basic tail are consistent with known homologous structures. Docking experiments using ClusPro indicate that the acidic groove of FV-AR2 has high shape complementarity to accommodate the conserved basic residues in FV-BR (1002-RKKKK-1006), TFPI-BR (256-RKRKK-260) or TFPI2-BR (191-KKKKK-195). Further, similar electrostatic interactions occur in each case. These models, in the absence of experimentally determined structures, provide a guiding point for proper mutagenesis studies in FV, TFPI and TFPI2.
BACKGROUND: Factor V (FV) B-domain contains an acidic region (FV-AR2) and a basic region (FV-BR), which interact with each other and maintain FV in a procofactor form; removal of either region via deletion/proteolysis results in an active FVa molecule. Tissue factor pathway inhibitor type-1 (TFPI) and type-2 (TFPI2) each contain a C-terminus basic segment homologous to FV-BR; this region in TFPI (and predicted in TFPI2) binds to FV-AR2 in platelet FVa (that lacks FV-BR) with high affinity and inhibits FVa function. OBJECTIVES: To understand molecular interactions between FV-AR2 with FV-BR, TFPI-BR and TFPI2-BR. METHODS: Circular dichroism (CD) and molecular modeling approaches. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: CD experiments reveal the presence of ∼20% helical content in both FV-AR2 and FV-BR but each lacks beta-sheet. Predicted structures of FV-AR2 and FV-BR, obtained using threading (I-TASSER), are consistent with the CD data and have compact folds with hydrophobic residues in the interior and charged residues on the surface. Scores from QMEAN and ModFOLD servers indicate a very high probability for each structure to be native. Predicted models of Kunitz domain-3 of TFPI and TFPI2 each with C-terminal basic tail are consistent with known homologous structures. Docking experiments using ClusPro indicate that the acidic groove of FV-AR2 has high shape complementarity to accommodate the conserved basic residues in FV-BR (1002-RKKKK-1006), TFPI-BR (256-RKRKK-260) or TFPI2-BR (191-KKKKK-195). Further, similar electrostatic interactions occur in each case. These models, in the absence of experimentally determined structures, provide a guiding point for proper mutagenesis studies in FV, TFPI and TFPI2.
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