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. 1995 Sep 1;310(Pt 2):623–628. doi: 10.1042/bj3100623

Platelet phospholipase D is activated by protein kinase C via an integrin alpha IIb beta 3-independent mechanism.

E A Martinson 1, S Scheible 1, A Greinacher 1, P Presek 1
PMCID: PMC1135941  PMID: 7544577

Abstract

Blood platelets contain phospholipase D (PLD) that is rapidly activated following platelet stimulation. It is currently unclear, however, where PLD fits into the signalling cascade that leads to aggregation and secretion. Therefore we investigated the mechanism of activation of PLD in human platelets, using the formation of the PLD-specific product phosphatidylethanol as a measure of PLD activity. PLD was activated by a number of platelet agonists that also cause the activation of protein kinase C, including thrombin, collagen, the Ca2+ ionophore A23187 and the thromboxane A2-mimetic U46619. Phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), a direct activator of protein kinase C, also increased PLD activity. A selective inhibitor of protein kinase C, Ro-31-8220, totally blocked the stimulation of PLD by thrombin or PMA under conditions in which it also inhibited phosphorylation of pleckstrin, the major protein kinase C substrate in platelets. Ro-31-8220 additionally inhibited A23187-stimulated PLD activity, indicating that Ca2+ activation of PLD also occurs via a protein kinase C-dependent pathway. In the presence of the fibrinogen antagonist peptide RGDS, which inhibits fibrinogen binding to integrin alpha IIb beta 3 and allows little or no aggregation to occur, thrombin- and PMA-stimulated PLD activity was still observed, indicating that PLD activation is not simply a consequence of platelet aggregation. Furthermore, these agonists were able to stimulate PLD in platelets from a Glanzmann's thrombasthenia type I patient lacking the integrin alpha IIb beta 3 complex, which indicates that activation of PLD is also independent of the recruitment of integrin alpha IIb beta 3. Taken together, our results show that PLD is activated by a pathway involving protein kinase C, and suggest that PLD might be involved in signal transduction events occurring upstream of integrin alpha IIb beta 3 activation and fibrinogen binding, which are prerequisites for full platelet aggregation.

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