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Front Med (Lausanne). 2016 Nov 04;3:52. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2016.00052. eCollection 2016.

Processing of Factor XII during Inflammatory Reactions.

Frontiers in medicine

Bernard Nico Jukema, Steven de Maat, Coen Maas

Affiliations

  1. Department of Clinical Chemistry and Hematology, University Medical Center Utrecht , Utrecht , Netherlands.

PMID: 27867935 PMCID: PMC5095611 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2016.00052

Abstract

The contact system was originally identified as an obsolete part of the coagulation system, but it has been repeatedly implicated in inflammatory states, such as infection, as well as in allergic- and chronic inflammatory disease. Under these conditions, there is surprisingly little evidence that factor XII (FXII) acts as a coagulation factor, and its activity appears to be mainly directed toward activation of the kallikrein-kinin system. The contact system factors interact with pathogens as well as cells of the (innate) immune system on several levels. Among others, these cells may provide negatively charged surfaces that contribute to contact activation as well as release enzymes that feed into this system. Furthermore, cellular receptors have been identified that bind contact factors at sites of inflammation. Based on the accumulated evidence, we propose a model for enzymatic crosstalk between inflammatory cells and the plasma contact system. During these reactions, FXII is enzymatically cleaved by non-contact system enzymes. This generates unactivated FXII fragments that can subsequently be rapidly activated in the fluid phase. The resulting enzyme lacks procoagulant properties, but retains its pro-inflammatory characteristic as a prekallikrein activator.

Keywords: bradykinin; elastase; factor XII; inflammation; plasmin

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