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Fibrinopeptide A in urine from patients with venous thromboembolism, disseminated intravascular coagulation and rheumatoid arthritis--evidence for dephosphorylation and carboxyterminal degradation of the peptide by the kidney.

Abstract
Urinary fibrinopeptide A immunoreactivity was determined by radioimmunoassay using two anti-fibrinopeptide A sera with a different specificity in patients with venous thromboembolism, disseminated intravascular coagulation and rheumatoid arthritis. Elevated levels were frequently observed with both sera, and intravenous administration of heparin in patients with a thromboembolic disorder resulted in a decline of urinary fibrinopeptide A (FPA) concentrations to normal or nearly normal values. For both sera significant correlations with plasma levels were found although one of the sera reacted significantly better with the material in urine samples from these patients than the other (p less than 0.0001, n = 73). Analysis of urinary fibrinopeptide A immunoreactivity by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) provided evidence that A peptide material present in this body fluid was heterogeneous. In view of the characteristics of the antisera used in this study, data suggest that urinary FPA immunoreactivity consists to a large extent of carboxyterminally degraded FPA. Excretion of circulating FPA immunoreactive material through the kidneys apparently involves dephosphorylation and carboxyterminal breakdown of the A peptide. Since both synthetic and native phosphorylated or unphosphorylated fibrinopeptide A appeared to be stable in urine in vitro, an active role of the kidney in degrading the A peptide is likely.
AuthorsO C Leeksma, F Meijer-Huizinga, E A Stoepman-van Dalen, W G van Aken, J A van Mourik
JournalThrombosis and haemostasis (Thromb Haemost) Vol. 54 Issue 4 Pg. 792-8 (Dec 17 1985) ISSN: 0340-6245 [Print] Germany
PMID4089813 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Fibrinopeptide A
  • Fibrinogen
Topics
  • Arthritis, Rheumatoid (metabolism, urine)
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
  • Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (metabolism, urine)
  • Fibrinogen (urine)
  • Fibrinopeptide A (blood, urine)
  • Humans
  • Kidney (metabolism)
  • Phosphorylation
  • Thrombophlebitis (metabolism, urine)

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