Lecture 18: Blood Coagulation Flashcards
What is importance of antiproteases?
Regulates (inactivates) enzymes activated by proteolysis–shit can get wonky fast if you don’t keep and eye on these bad boys
What is the inactive form of thrombin (2a)?
Prothrombin (2)
What is the final role of thrombin (2)?
Cleaves fibrinogen (1) to fibrin (1a)
Where are digestive enzymes made?
Salivary glands, stomach, pancreas, small intestine
What is the activator for pepsinogen?
How is it activated?
Low pH (2) of stomach acid
Spontaneously–autocatalytic
Acidic amino acids are pronated, salt bridges become broken–conformational change
Where are majority of zymogens produced?
Pancreas
What activates trypsinogen?
What changes in the molecule?
Enteropeptidase or trypsin
Active site completed following conformational change
What is trypsin able to activate following its activation?
Other trypsinogen molecules + chymotrypsin, procarboxypeptidase, proelastase
What is an enzyme cascade?
When a small amount of enzyme can cycle back and further activate its own molecules
How is the digestive enzyme cascade regulated?
Self-Regulating, enzymes destroyed by other enzymes in the pathway
What does floppy mean in the silly world of enzymes?
Unordered
How is chymotrypsinogen activated?
Trypsin cleaves a peptide bond, yielding pi-chymotrypsin, which further autocleaves itself to eventually form alpha-chymotrypsin which is held together by 2 di-sulfide bonds
What is formed in the final step to yield alpha-chymotrypsin?
New N-Terminal Amino Acid, which H-bonds of the Charge Relay System–yielding the oxyanion pocket
When does activation of chymotrypsin occur?
When cleavage allows alignment of the catalytic site
What inhibitor protects pancreas enzymes from self destruction? What does it act like?
Pancreatic Trypsin Inhibitor (PTI)
Competitive Inhibitor (gets stuck)
What is the cause of emphysema?
Who is at greatest risk?
Genetic change in alpha1AP protein, which reduces secretion. Elastase destroys tissues.
Homozygotes, or heterozygotes who smoke them marlboro reds all day, every day
What is the contact system?
Intrinsic Pathway (circulating in blood)
What is the damaged tissue system?
Extrinsic Pathway (Fast!)