UROKINASE ZYMOGEN AND COMPOSITION CONTAINING THE SAME

摘要

There is provided a zymogen of plasminogen activator which is produced by culturing human kidney cells in a culturing medium and recovering from the culture fluid by affinity chromatography using a column of immobilized anti-zymogen antibody. The zymogen is a polypeptide having a single chain with a molecular weight of about 50,000. Although the zymogen itself little exhibits plasminogen activator activity, it manifests a significant plasminogen activator activity by catalytic amounts of plasmin. The zymogen has a thrombolytic ability as high as three times that of a human urinary urokinase, and the zymogen is usable for treating human thrombus. The zymogen can be stabilized by the addition of albumin and thus its stable liophylized preparation can be prepared.