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Lecture 18: Clotting Cascade Flashcards

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Hemostasis occurs in how many steps?

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3 steps

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What is primary hemostasis?

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Formation of a primary plug - clumping of blood platelets at site of injury

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What is secondary hemostasis?

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Formation of blood clot

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Secondary hemostatic plug is formed by depositing of?

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Insoluble strands of fibrin on the primary plug

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What occurs during the 3rd sage of hemostasis?

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Fibrinolysis - removal of clot

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3 characteristics of hemostasis?

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1) Must be fast
2) Localized
3) Carefully controlled

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Goal of fibrin clot is altering which soluble protein into which insoluble one?

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Fibrinogen (soluble)—–> Fibrin (insoluble)

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What is the largest plasma protein and accounts for 4% of the total plasma proteins?

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Fibrinogen

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What is a zymogen and how is it activated?

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Inactive form of an enzyme that can be activated by proteolysis.

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What are the two sites on a zymogen and their function?

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1) Pre- For secretion

2) Pro- Keeps it inactive

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Zymogens are made where?

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Liver

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Zymogen are released into blood plasma and what makes them active?

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Cleavage of the Pro- site by a protease in coagulating blood

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Each zymogen serves first as a ________, then as a ______?

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First as a substrate, then as an enzyme

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The final substrate is?

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Fibrinogen

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Fibrinogen (factor I) is acted on by which enzyme and becomes?

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Acted on by Thrombin (IIa), becomes fibrin

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What is factor II and factor IIa?

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Factor II = Prothrombin

Factor IIa = Thrombin

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What does fibrin form at site of injury?

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Polymerizes into clot - forms insoluble crosslink dam

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What is factor III?

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Tissue factor (TF)

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What is factor IX?

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Christmas Factor

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What is factor XII?

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Contact Factor

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What is factor XIII?

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Plasma transglutimase

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Factor IX deficiency causes?

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Hemophilia B: Christmas disease

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Prothrombin is activated to thrombin by what kind of cleavage?

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Proteolytic cleavage with a serine protease (prothrombinase)

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Thrombin is itself a ________ and cuts at sites with which amino acids?

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Serine protease and cuts at sites with ARG-GLY

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Fibrinogen is made up of which subunits, that exist as?
3 subunits (α, β, and γ), exist as dimers
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Thrombin cuts and releases what from fibrinogen?
A + B fibrinopeptides
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Which domains of fibrinogen interact; type of bond?
E domain binds to D domain; H-bond
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Why are A + B fibrinopeptides significant?
Prevent self-aggregation
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Release of A fibrinopeptide allows for what interaction to occur; forms?
E domain (A sites) interacts with D domain (γ subunit) over + over; forms a "soft" clot
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Cutting off ends of B sites allow for what interaction?
B chains interact to form 3D wall
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Formation of a cross-linked fibrin (hard clot) requires what kind of bond, between which amino acids?
Covalent bond between NH2 of glutamine and NH3 of lysine.
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What factor is responsible or the formation of the cross-linked fibrin?
Factor XIIIa - transglutaminase
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What activates transglutaminase?
Thrombin Factor XIII ------> Factor XIIIa
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Why must prothrombin be modified by post-translational modification?
Important for clot localization
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What occurs during the post-translational modification of prothrombin; new charge?
Carboxylation of several glutamic acid residues - adds another charge to side R-group on amino acid "-2" negative charge
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What is the post-translational modified glutamate on prothrombin called?
γ-carboxyglutamate
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How does this -2 charge help localize prothrombin to damaged vessels?
Damage vessels release Ca2+ - so modified Prothrombin (-2 charge) has perfect binding site for Ca2+
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Ca2+ bound to prothrombin then binds where and unconvers?
To platelets which have exploded uncovering negatively charged phospholipids as they invert.
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Modification of Prothrombin (carboxylation) requires which vitamin?
Vitamin K
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Recycling of Vitamin K requires which enzyme?
Epoxide reductase
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How do Warfarin (coumadin) and Dicoumerol act on epoxide reductase; do what to prothrombin levels?
Competitive inhibition; decrease prothrombin levels
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Warfarin and Dicoumerol inhibit which step; classified as what kind of drugs?
Addition of carboxylic acid groups to prothrombin; anti-clotting drugs
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Safe and effective tx for Warfarin reversal?
IV Vitamin K
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Why must patients on Warfarin be watched carefully?
Warfarin is a rodenticide: rat poison
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Clotting cascase is an enzyme cascade of what type of proteases?
Serine
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What are the two pathways of the clotting cascade; lead to?
Intrinsic (workhorse) and extrinsic (starts process); common pathway
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Which pathway does not require a protein outside of blood to be activated?
Intrinsic pathway
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A broken vessel will release contact factors and activate?
Factor XII ----> XIIa
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What must be in the presence of XIIa to activate XI---->XIa?
Ca2+
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XIa activates IX in the presence of ?
PF3: platelet factor 3: phospholipids
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Where is PF3 located?
Interior platelets, become exposed when platelet disrupted
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Function of FVIII; activated by?
Helper protein (co-factor); activated by thrombin
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VIIIa complexes with and forms?
IXa to form IXa-VIIIa complex (tenase)
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Tenase in the presence of what activates?
In presence of PF3, Ca2+ will activate X---->Xa
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Xa complexes with to form?
Va to form Xa-Va complex (prothrombinase)
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V ----> Va requires?
Thrombin
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The Xa-Va complex activates; requires?
Prothrombin ------> Thrombin; PF3, Ca2+
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Hemophilia A and B are caused by issues with which factors?
A (Factor VIII) B (Factor IX)
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How does a small signal get a large response in the cascade?
Amplification i.e., activation of handful of Factor XII activates hundreds of Factor XI which activates thousands of IX
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What does the extrinsic pathway require than the intrinsic doesn't and where is it found?
Tissue Factor (FIII) - found on surface of cells lining blood vessles
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Extrinsic pathway is activated by contact of; forms?
Factor VII with tissue factor (FIII); forms VIIa-TF complex
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What is the major pathway?
Extrinsic
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Where does the thrombin come from that is necessary for the earlier steps?
- 1% of FVII circulates as FVIIa, which joins with TF when damage occurs, activates FX. - Platelets have some activated FVa, so FXa-FVa (prothrombinase) complex forms and you get thrombin burst
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The thrombin spark to get the intrinsic pathway (workhorse) going, comes from?
Extrinsic pathway (why it's so important/major player)
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What other factors require addition of carboxyl and are vitamin K dependent?
X, IX, and VII
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Rate of clotting is greatly accelerated by?
Positive feedback
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Reference range from partial thromboplastin time (PTT)
20-35 seconds
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Partial thromboplastin time (PTT) measures the time between, which pathways involved?
Factor XII to Fibrin clot (intrinsic and common pathways)
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Prothrombin time (PT) is time between, which pathways involved?
Factor VII to Fibrin clot (extrinsic and common pathways)
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What is the normal range for prothrombin time (PT)?
12-14 seconds
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Initiating component for clotting in vivo?
TF
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Clotting in vivo does not include which factor?
Factor XII
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What is the phone number to remember steps for clotting in vivo?
379-8105
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Thrombin can bind what to regulate clotting cascade?
Binds fibrin - inactivates fibrin
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Thrombin can cut and inactivate which factors?
FVIIIA ---> FVIIIi Xa ---> Xi Va --> Vi Prothrombin ---> inactive form
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Thrombin complexes with thrombomodulin to create TTM complex, which cleaves and creates?
Protein C into active Protein Ca
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Activated Protein Ca plus other proteins inactivate which factors and cause a decrease in?
FVa and FVIIIa - decreases production of thrombin
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Why do activated Protein Ca's localize to platelet areas with PF3?
Decorated with γ-carboxyglutamate
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Which common drug protects platelet integrity?
Aspirin
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What does Heparin do?
Activates antithrombin III - binds to Thrombin and Xa - inactivates
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What dissolves clot - fibrinolysis?
Tissue plasminogen factor (TPA)
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Calcium chelating agents have what affect on Ca2+ and what affect on clotting?
Decrease Ca2+ and this has an anti-clotting affect.

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