White's Hemostasis Lecture Flashcards
Hemostasis refers to
formation of a barrier to blood
Three types of barriers to blood
hemostatic plug, blood clot or thrombus
Primary hemostasis
1) primary hemostasis – primary plug – platelet aggregation
creates a physical plug causing vasoconstriction to reduce blood flow
platelets interact with broken vessel + each other to form primary hemostatic plug
Secondary Hemostasis
fibrin is deposited on the platelets, making the plug even more insoluble
Third stage of hemostasis
fibrinolysis, removal of clot
coagulation factors
soluble blood proteins that form fibrin
Fibrin clot: the goal
involves converting fibriogen into fibrin
fibrinogen is the largest of the plasma protein, constitutes about 4% of blood plasma proteins
another name for circulating inactive coagulation factors
zymogens
these can be activated by proteolysis
what is a zymogen
an inactive protein/enzyme that is activated by site specific proteolysis
In the liver, enzymes with “pre” and “pro” areas ndicate what
pre - for secretion; an area that is cleaved to permit secretion
pro- to keep inactivated; an area that is kept to maintain inactivation
when acted on by the final protein, ________, fibrinogen is converted to fibrin
thrombin
Named factors vs unnamed factors
Factor 1 (F1): fibrinogen F2: prothrombin F3: Tissue factor F4-F8 unnamed F9: Christmas factor F10-F11 unnamed F12 Contact Factor F13 Plasma transglutaminase
What three things happen after a tissue injury to prevent blood loss?
1) vasoconstriction
2) Collagen exposure activates platelets producing a primary hemostatic plug
3) Tissue factors lead to the overlaying of fibrin to produce a fibrin clot.
the “fibrin clot” is composed of fibrin and platelet aggregation
Prothrombin is activated to thrombin by a
serine protease (prothrombinase) serine residues are in the active site then
Thrombin as serine protease
thrombin cuts fibrinogen at ARG-GLY sites
fibrinogen: how it gets activated to fibrin
fibrinogen has 3 domains (D–E–D), 3 subunits (alpha, beta, gamma), and 2 sites for cleaving, A and B (superior/inferior to alpha subunit)
the Alpha subunit can subsequently fit into the gamma site of another fibrinogen’s gamma site: this is the cross linking effect.
alpha (E domain, A site) fits into the gamma (D domain) site, creating a
while cleavage of A peptide uncovers sites in the E domain that are complementary to the D domain
what is the “basic” interaction allowing fibrin to aggregate?
E domains (A sites) interact with D domains on adjacent fibrin (gamma subunit) over and over,
in addition to the A site (E Domain) gamma (D domain) interaction, what other site does thrombin cleave?
the B sites: thenceforth B sites interact to form a 3 dimensional wall
“soft clot”
this is when fibrinogen’s D and E domains interact, and the B sites interact to form the three dimensional wall
E–D domain interactions use ___ bonds in _______ formation
H bonds in soft clot formation
Hard Clot Formation
Use covalent bonds between NH2 of glutamine and NH3 of lysin
What bonds form the hard clot?
NH2 of glutamine and NH3 of lysine, catalyzed by transglutaminase (Factor XIIIa)
FXIII —> FXIIIa via
thrombin, which activates transglutaminase
Prothrombin’s post-translational modification is
important for clot localization
How is protrhombin modified?
a glutamic acids gets an additional carboxyl group that adds a -2 charge to an R group on amino acid = gamma carboxyglutamate.
What is protrhombin’s post-translational modification called
gamma-carboxyglutamate
glutamic acid on prothrombin receives a corboxylic acid group that has a -2 charge