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. 1991 Mar 1;274(Pt 2):457–463. doi: 10.1042/bj2740457

Further studies on the topography of the N-terminal region of human platelet glycoprotein IIIa. Localization of monoclonal antibody epitopes and the putative fibrinogen-binding sites.

J J Calvete 1, J Arias 1, M V Alvarez 1, M M Lopez 1, A Henschen 1, J González-Rodríguez 1
PMCID: PMC1150161  PMID: 1706596

Abstract

The precise localization of the epitopes for six monoclonal antibodies specific for the N-terminal region of human platelet glycoprotein IIIa (GPIIIa) was determined. The epitope for P37, a monoclonal antibody that inhibits platelet aggregation, was found at GPIIIa 101-109, flanked by the epitopes for P23-3 (GPIIIa 16-28), P23-4 (GPIIIa 83-91), P23-5 (GPIIIa 67-73), P23-7 (GPIIIa 114-122) and P40 (GPIIIa 262-302), and very close to the early chymotryptic cleavage site of GPIIIa in whole platelets (Phe-100). When the amino acid sequence of GPIIIa was searched for peptide sequences hydropathically complementary to the fibrinogen gamma-chain C-terminal (gamma 400-411) and A alpha-chain RGD-containing peptides, none was found for the gamma 400-411, two (GPIIIa 128-132 and 380-384) were found complementary to fibrinogen A alpha 571-575 and two (GPIIIa 109-113 and 129-133) were found for A alpha 94-99. Two of these putative fibrinogen-binding sites overlap with each other, and a third one overlaps with the epitope for P37. These findings reinforce the earlier suggestion that the N-terminal region of GPIIIa is involved in fibrinogen binding, and suggest the existence in GPIIIa of either multiple or alternative RGD-binding sites or one RGD-binding domain with several moieties. Finally, early chymotryptic cleavage of GPIIIa in whole platelets liberates to the soluble fraction the peptide stretch Ser-101-Tyr-348, which carries the epitope for P37 and the putative binding sites for fibrinogen. The rest of the molecule, together with the GPIIb-resistant moiety, remains membrane-bound. This leads us to propose that the fibrinogen-binding domain of GPIIIa is not involved in the binding to GPIIb to form the Ca2(+)-dependent GPIIb-GPIIIa complex.

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