Boophilus microplus anticoagulant protein: an antithrombin inhibitor isolated from the cattle tick saliva - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2000 Dec 1;384(1):68-73.

doi: 10.1006/abbi.2000.2076.

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Boophilus microplus anticoagulant protein: an antithrombin inhibitor isolated from the cattle tick saliva

F Horn et al. Arch Biochem Biophys. 2000.

Abstract

An anticoagulant was isolated from saliva of the cattle tick Boophilus microplus. Crude saliva prolonged both recalcification time and prothrombin time in assays with bovine plasma. It also inhibited thrombin, but not fXa, amidolytic activity. We purified the antithrombin activity by a combination of gel filtration, anion exchange, and affinity chromatography. The purified inhibitor has a molecular weight of 60,000 Da, determined by SDS-PAGE. The anticoagulant IC50 varied from 100 nM to 1.1 microM, depending on the thrombin concentration and substrate used (fibrinogen or platelet receptor). The excess of inhibitor in relation to thrombin indicates that it is not a tight-binding inhibitor. Chromogenic assays using a panel of five serine-proteinases suggest that the inhibitor is specific against thrombin.

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