Medizinische Universität Graz Austria/Österreich - Forschungsportal - Medical University of Graz
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Bark, N; Földes-Papp, Z; Rigler, R.
The incipient stage in thrombin-induced fibrin polymerization detected by FCS at the single molecule level.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1999; 260(1): 35-41.
Doi: 10.1006/bbrc.1999.0850
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- We used fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) to study the activation of fibrinogen by thrombin and the subsequent aggregation of fibrin monomers into fibrin polymers at a very low and at physiological fibrinogen concentrations. In the labeling procedure used the fibrinogen was randomly labeled and the label was bound to the fibrinopeptide A and/or to the part of fibrinogen which after activation takes part in fibrin formation. We measured a diffusion coefficient for fibrinogen of 2.48 x 10(-7) +/- 0.10 x 10(-7) cm2/s. After activation with thrombin both fibrinopeptide A and fibrin polymerization products could be demonstrated. From our findings we suggest a model for the formation of a three-dimensional network as two parallel processes, elongation and branching and that fibrin oligomers are not only intermediates in the polymerization process but also are substrates for branching.
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