Mmh. Khan et al., 3 NONCONTIGUOUS PEPTIDES COMPRISE BINDING-SITES ON HIGH-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT KININOGEN TO NEUTROPHILS, American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 44(1), 1998, pp. 145-150
The binding of high-molecular-weight kininogen (HX) to neutrophils (po
lymorphonuclear leukocytes, PMN) is required for the stimulation of ag
gregation and degranulation by human plasma kallikrein as well as the
displacement of fibrinogen from this cell surface. The putative recept
or for HK is the leukocyte integrin alpha(M)beta(2), and domains 3 (D3
) and 5 (D5) of HK form its binding site. To further map the binding s
ites on HK for PMN, we used D3 recombinant exon products and designed
peptides from D3 and D5. In D3, a heptapeptide, Leu(271)-Ala(277) from
exon 7 product, and a peptide, Cys(333)-Cys(352), from exon 9 product
can inhibit binding of kininogen to PMN. Two contiguous peptides from
D5 in the histidine-glycine-rich region, Gly(442)-Lys(458) and Phe(45
9)-Lys(478), each inhibit the binding of HK to PMN. This study has thu
s delineated three noncontiguous surface-oriented sequences on HK, whi
ch together comprise all or most of the binding site for human PMN.