The Journal of Antibiotics
Online ISSN : 1881-1469
Print ISSN : 0021-8820
ISSN-L : 0021-8820
Activation of Fibrinolysis by SMTP-7 and -8, Novel Staplabin Analogs with a Pseudosymmetric Structure
WEIMIN HUSHIGEKI OHYAMAKEIJI HASUMI
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2000 Volume 53 Issue 3 Pages 241-247

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Two novel staplabin analogs, SMTP-7 and -8, have been isolated from cultures of Stachybotrys microspora IFO 30018. Spectroscopic analyses showed that the SMTP-7 molecule consisted of two identical staplabin core structures and ornithine which bridges the two partial structures. In the SMTP-8 molecule, the bridging unit was lysine. At concentrations of 80-150μM, the two compounds caused 2- to 12-fold increase in urokinase-catalyzed plasminogen activation, fibrin binding of plasminogen, and urokinase- and plasminogen-mediated fibrinolysis. These activities of SMTP-7 and -8 were two to ten times higher than those of staplabin and previously isolated SMTPs, which exerted such effects at concentrations ranging from 150 to 800 μM.

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