Estimation of the Carbohydrate Moiety of von Willebrand Factor in the Plasma of Patients with Subtypes 2a and 2b of von Willebrand Disease
| Autor: | de Romeuf C, Bruno Samor, Claudine Mazurier |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
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congenital
hereditary and neonatal diseases and abnormalities medicine.medical_specialty Carbohydrates Alpha (ethology) chemistry.chemical_compound Von Willebrand factor hemic and lymphatic diseases Internal medicine von Willebrand Factor Blood plasma Von Willebrand disease medicine Coagulopathy Humans Point Mutation chemistry.chemical_classification biology Hematology Carbohydrate medicine.disease Sialic acid von Willebrand Diseases Endocrinology chemistry Biochemistry biology.protein Colorimetry Glycoprotein |
| Zdroj: | Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 74:1180-1184 |
| ISSN: | 2567-689X 0340-6245 |
| DOI: | 10.1055/s-0038-1649900 |
| Popis: | SummaryVon Willebrand disease (vWD) results from quantitative (types 1 and 3) or qualitative (type 2) deficiency of von Willebrand factor (vWF). This glycoprotein present in plasma is involved in platelet adhesion at the site of vascular injury and serves as the carrier of antihaemophilic A factor (FVIII). Whereas recent studies have identified mutations in patients suffering from type 2 vWD, the integrity of the carbohydrate moiety of vWF in these patients is still matter of debate. In order to analyse in the plasma milieu the carbohydrate content of plasma vWF from various well-characterized type 2 vWD patients, we developed a colorimetric assay in microtiter plate based on the use of peroxidase- conjugated lectins specific for either α 2-6 sialic acid or β 1-4 galactose. Removal of sialic acid from purified plasma vWF induced significant changes in the reactivity of both lectins. The analysis of various normal plasmas showed no influence of the blood groups and allowed us to compare various vWD patients. The reactivity of lectins for plasma vWFs from two type 2A and six type 2B vWD patients harbouring different mutations was not statistically different from that of a pool of normal plasmas. We conclude that the α 2-6 sialic acid and β 1-4 galactose content of plasma vWF is not altered in these patients affected with types 2A and 2B vWD. |
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