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Andrew T. Jacovina, Arunkumar B. Deora, Qi Ling, M. Johan Broekman, Dena Almeida, Caroline B. Greenberg, Aaron J. Marcus, Jonathan D. Smith, Katherine A. Hajjar
Published in Volume 119, Issue 11
J Clin Invest. 2009; 119(11):3384–3394 doi:10.1172/JCI39591
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Effect of HC on A2 binding of TPA and plasmin generation.

(A) Lung membrane proteins from mice maintained on chow, Gly, or Met diets and rA2 (1 μg) were immunoblotted with rabbit anti-mouse TPA or mouse anti-A2 IgG. For ligand blotting (LB), proteins resolved under reducing (R) or non-reducing (NR) conditions were incubated with human TPA and then probed with rabbit anti-mouse TPA. GAPDH served as a loading control. (B) Left: Cryosections from mice on chow, Gly, or Met diets were incubated with biotinylated TPA and stained as described in Methods. Right: Paraffin-embedded lung sections were stained with rabbit anti–HC-A2 tail peptide IgG as described in Methods. Original magnification, ×200. (C) Purification of native A2. Reduced Coomassie blue–stained (CB) SDS-PAGE and immunoblot analysis with monoclonal anti-A2 of native A2 purified from lung tissue of mice on Gly and Met diets. Samples were run on noncontiguous lanes of the same gel. (D) TPA-dependent plasmin generation in the presence of A2 purified from lung tissue. Initial rates of hydrolysis of a fluorogenic plasmin substrate were calculated as described in Methods. RFU, relative fluorescence units. *P < 0.001 versus Gly.