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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-6-2
pubmed:abstractText
Several laboratories have reported that diacylglycerol levels in human platelets (approximately 100 pmol/10(9) platelets) increased severalfold in response to 0.5-1 U/ml thrombin. We report here fluctuations in diacylglycerol mass in control platelets, the magnitude of which were 60-90% of that measured in platelets treated with 0.2-0.5 U/ml of thrombin. These control platelets were not activated by such criteria as absence of aggregation, secretion, phosphatidic acid production and phosphorylation of the protein kinase C substrate, pleckstrin. Thrombin treatment evoked all of the above responses. Analysis of the diacylglycerol molecular species by reverse-phase HPLC of the dimethylated, phosphorylated derivatives showed that all of the molecular species that were present in control platelets were also present in thrombin-treated platelets. Most of the species appeared to fluctuate at random in control platelets with the exception of 1-stearoyl-2-arachidonoyl-sn-glycerol which was more or less stable and increased severalfold over control values only upon thrombin treatment. Furthermore, only this species accumulated as [32P]phosphorylated PtdOH in thrombin-treated platelets prelabelled with [32P]Pi. Our findings show that, in platelets, elevation of diacylglycerol molecular species other than the 1-stearoyl-2-arachidonoyl species occurs, but these changes are not necessarily linked to activation of protein kinase C as measured by pleckstrin phosphorylation which was observed only upon elevation of 1-stearoyl-2-arachidonoyl-sn-glycerol.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0014-2956
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
228
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
579-86
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Diacylglycerol elevations in control platelets are unaccompanied by pleckstrin phosphorylation. Implications for the role of diacylglycerol in platelet activation.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Norway.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, In Vitro, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't