Cryo-EM structure of coagulation factor Va bound to activated protein C.

ABSTRACT:

Abstract

Coagulation factor Va (FVa) is the cofactor component of the prothrombinase complex required for rapid generation of thrombin from prothrombin in the penultimate step of the coagulation cascade. In addition, FVa is a target for proteolytic inactivation by activated protein C (APC). Like other protein-protein interactions in the coagulation cascade, the FVa-APC interaction has long posed a challenge to structural biology and its molecular underpinnings remain unknown. A recent cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structure of FVa has revealed the arrangement of its A1-A2-A3-C1-C2 domains and the environment of the sites of APC cleavage at R306 and R506. Here, we report the cryo-EM structure of the FVa-APC complex at 3.15 Å resolution in which the protease domain of APC e

SUBMITTER: Mohammed BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12290516 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature