Improvement in XIa Selectivity of Snake Venom Peptide Analogue BF9-N17K Using P2' Amino Acid Replacements.

ABSTRACT: Coagulation factor XIa is a new serine-protease family drug target for next-generation anticoagulants. With the snake venom Kunitz-type peptide BF9 as the scaffold, we obtained a highly active XIa inhibitor BF9-N17K in our previous work, but it also inhibited the hemostatic target plasmin. Here, in order to enhance the selectivity of BF9-N17K toward XIa, four mutants, BF9-N17K-L19A, BF9-N17K-L19S, BF9-N17K-L19D, and BF9-N17K-L19K, were further designed using the P2' amino acid classification scanning strategy. The anticoagulation assay showed that the four P2' single-point mutants still had apparent inhibitory anticoagulation activity that selectively inhibited the human intrinsic coagulation pathway and had no influence on the extrinsic coagulation pathway or common coagulation pathway, w

SUBMITTER: Ding L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11769409 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature