ADAMTS13(a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with a thrombospondin type 1 motif, member 13),又稱溫韋伯氏因子裂解酶(von Willebrand factor-cleaving protease,VWFCP)是一種含鋅的金屬蛋白酶。ADAMTS13可以裂解一種稱為溫韋伯氏因子(vWf)的大型凝血因子。為一種主要由肝臟星狀細胞(stellate cell)製造的蛋白酶,少量由血管內皮細胞、血小板、腎臟足細胞及腎小管上皮細胞分泌[6],在人體與動物實驗中皆發現受試者接受部分肝切除手術後,ADAMTS13的活性會下降至正常值的30~40%,可見肝臟對ADAMTS13的製造具有重要的貢獻。本酵素存在於血液之中,降解vWf多聚體,以降低它們的活性[7]。
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ADAMTS13基因存在於第九對染色體(9q34)上[7]。
自1982年時,人們就知道遺傳性血栓性血小板減少性紫癜(TTP,一種微血管病性溶血性貧血)患者的血漿中,存在異常巨大的溫韋伯氏因子多聚體(ULVWF)[7]。
1994年,發現在高剪力下時,有一種血漿金屬酶會從vWF第1605位的酪氨酸及1606位的甲硫氨酸間切割。1996年,兩個獨立研究團隊分別發現該酵素。自接下來的兩年,同樣的兩個團隊證明了vWF裂解酶與小血管的血小板血栓生成相關。此外他們還報導了在大部分非遺傳性TTP患者身上,能發現對抗ADAMTS13的IgG抗體[7]。
ADAMTS家族目前共已知有19種蛋白質,ADAMTS13屬於其中一員,與其他金屬蛋白酶族同樣有一個14個相異的結構域組成的結構,包括金屬蛋白酶(metalloprotease)、解整合素(disintegrin)、TSP1(first thrombospondin type 1 repeat)和間隔域(spacer domain) ,但ADAMTS13並不具備穿膜蛋白結構 ,因此其不存在細胞膜上,而是隨着血液循環在大小血管內作用。該家族的蛋白質擁有蛋白酶結構域,可以水解蛋白質,鄰近則有解聚素結構域,且含有多個血小板反應蛋白結構域。ADAMTS13含有8個血小板反應蛋白結構域,且無輸水穿膜段,所以該蛋白並非膜蛋白[7]。
ADAMTS13缺乏症最早發現於Upshaw Schulman Syndrome,為一種復發性遺傳性血栓性血小板減少性紫癜。當時學界認為該病屬於一種自體免疫疾病,因為該疾病使用血漿置換及IgG抑制劑。在ADAMTS13發現後,研究人員發現這些自體抗體會對抗該蛋白上的抗原表位[7][8][9]。ADAMTS13具有裂解溫韋伯氏因子多聚體(UL-VWFM)並降低溫韋伯氏因子活性的功能 ,能抑止血小板堆積於微血管形成血栓。[10]由血管內皮細胞分泌的ADAMTS13,可能負責大部分新生溫韋伯氏因子多聚體的裂解,以達到即刻性抑止血栓形成的作用。當ADAMTS13受到自身抗體的攻擊而導致活性下降(小於正常活性10%),即可能造成呈現巨分子狀態的溫韋伯氏因子(也就是溫韋伯氏因子多聚體)沉積後黏附於血管內皮細胞表層,促使微小血管中血小板凝集,使血液中游離的血小板數量不足,同時血管中的纖維蛋白增加亦破壞紅血球結構,形成不正常型態的血球 (例如:裂細胞Schistocyte)與發生溶血現象,導致產生獲得性血栓性血小板減少性紫斑症的臨床徵狀。
研究中發現ADAMTS13低下除了與獲得性血栓性血小板減少性紫斑症的形成密切相關外,在其他栓塞性微血管病變(thrombotic microangiopathy,TMA)中ADAMTS13有不同程度的下降[11] ,在敗血症、惡性高血壓病患及自體免疫患者中也有發生相似的變化[12][13] ,因此合理的推論ADAMTS13活性下降雖然不一定成為直接造成上述疾病的成因,但極有可能在這些病症中擔任促成因子的角色。
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