Abstract
Human tissue factor pathway inhibitor-2 (hTFPI-2) has three kunitz domains whose structure and function are unclear. We expressed the first kunitz domain of hTFPI-2 (hTFPI-2/KD1) as functional form using Pichia pastoris and investigated its characterization. In the experiment, hTFPI-2/KD1 can inhibit the plasmin and trypsin activity and the Ki of hTFPI-2/KD1 towards plasmin (30 nM) and trypsin (50 nM) was determined as 10 and 7 nM by chromogenic assay, respectively. hTFPI-2/KD1 can also inhibit MMP-2 and MMP-9 in zymography assay. Furthermore, the inhibition of hTFPI-2/KD1 to the Matrigel invasion by HT-1080 is also described. This study provides a method to produce hTFPI-2/KD1 efficiently and some insights into the structure and function of hTFPI-2/KD1.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1179-1185 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications |
Volume | 324 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 26 2004 |
Keywords
- Human tissue factor pathway inhibitor-2
- Kunitz domain
- Pichia pastoris
- Plasmin
- Protein expression
- Purification
- Trypsin
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biophysics
- Biochemistry
- Molecular Biology
- Cell Biology