Figure 7.
Binding of His-pro-uPAwt and His-pro-uPA138E/303E to vitronectin in the absence and in the presence of uPAR. (A) 1.25 μg, 2.5 μg, and 5 μg of urea-denatured vitronectin (lanes 3, 4, 5 and 8, 9, 10, respectively), or 5 μg of fibronectin (lanes 1 and 6) or collagen (lanes 2 and 7) were separated onto 7.5% SDS-PAGE under reducing conditions, blotted to a PVDF membrane, and probed with 2.5 × 106 cpm of 125I-labeled His-pro-uPAwt (lanes 1–5) or His-pro-uPA138E/303E (6–10) in a total volume of 2.5 ml. The filter was dried and exposed to an autoradiographic film. (B) 50,000 cpm of 125I-vitronectin were incubated with 106 primed U937 cells, in the absence or in the presence of 10 nM recombinant prouPA, His-pro-uPAwt, or His-pro-uPA138E/303E. Specific binding of 125I-vitronectin, calculated by subtracting the background obtained in the presence of 100 nM vitronectin, is reported in the figure.
