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Two Korean leech species, Hirudo nipponia and Whitmania sp., were examined for the presence of anticoagulant activity. Crude extracts of the leech head parts were fractionated by ethanol and the anticoagulant activity of these extracts was assessed with respect to the inhibition of thrombin, factor ...

Two Korean leech species, Hirudo nipponia and Whitmania sp., were examined for the presence of anticoagulant activity. Crude extracts of the leech head parts were fractionated by ethanol and the anticoagulant activity of these extracts was assessed with respect to the inhibition of thrombin, factor Xa and trypsin using the chromogenic substrate assay. While the extract from Hirudo nipponia inhibited all three serine proteases employed in the assay, that of Whitmania sp. inhibited only trypsin, but not thrombin and factor Xa. Thus, the extract from Hirudo nipponia which shows antithrombin activity was subjected to further purification. Three steps of column chromatography including gel filtration on Superose 12 column, anion exchange on Mono-Q and reverse phase HPLC on C-8 column could resolve 3 antithrombin activity peaks from anti-trypsin and anti-factor Xa activities, indicating the presence of multiple forms of thrombin-specific inhibitors in Hirudo nipponia. N-terminal amino acid sequences of the two of these forms showed a limited degree of homology with a portion of heparin cofactor II.