The kinetic parameters and stoichiometry of inhibition for the reaction of sctPA, tctPA, and tcuPA with NBD P9 PAI-1 and its Vn complexes in the presence of dsDNA
klim and Km were calculated by fitting an equation kobs = klim [E]/(Km + [E]) to plots of kobs versus [E] using SigmaPlot 11.0 (SPSS, Inc.) as described under “Experimental Procedures.” The stoichiometry of inhibition (SI), the number of moles of PAI-1 required to inhibit 1 mol of the enzyme, was estimated from the results of a gradient SDS-PAGE of the products of the reaction of recombinant WT PAI-1 and its complexes with Vn with the proteinase with or without dsDNA (10 μg/ml).