Abstract
Objective: To determine the efficacy of soluble pig tissue factor pathway inhibitor fusion immunoglobulin (TFPI-Ig) in blocking pig to human xenogeneic blood coagulation. Results: To generate pig TFPI-Ig or human TFPI-Ig, expression vector containing cDNA encoding pig TFPIα or human TFPIα combined with human constant Ig heavy chain region was cloned and introduced into CHO cells. After purification of pig TFPI-Ig and human TFPI-Ig, the inhibition of each recombinant protein on pig tissue factor (TF)-mediated blood coagulation was examined in human plasma. Compared to human TFPI-Ig, pig TFPI-Ig inhibited pig TF activity and thrombin generation in human plasma more efficiently at certain concentrations. Conclusions: Pig TFPI-Ig will be be useful as a therapeutic protein to treat pig to human xenogeneic blood coagulation.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1631-1638 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Biotechnology letters |
Volume | 39 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 Nov 1 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by a grant (Grant Number: HI13C0954) of the Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) funded by the Ministry of Health &Welfare, Republic of Korea.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
Keywords
- Blood coagulation
- Recombinant protein
- Tissue factor
- Tissue factor pathway inhibitor
- Xenotransplantation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biotechnology
- Bioengineering
- Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology