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. 1980 Aug;66(2):275–283. doi: 10.1172/JCI109854

Phospholipid Metabolism in Stimulated Human Platelets

CHANGES IN PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL, PHOSPHATIDIC ACID, AND LYSOPHOSPHOLIPIDS

M Johan Broekman 1,2, Jean W Ward 1,2, Aaron J Marcus 1,2
PMCID: PMC371708  PMID: 7400315

Abstract

Endogenous phospholipid metabolism in stimulated human platelets was studied by phosphorus assay of major and minor components following separation by two-dimensional thin-layer chromatography. This procedure obviated the use of radioactive labels. Extensive changes were found in quantities of phosphatidylinositol (PI) and phosphatidic acid (PA) as a consequence of thrombin or collagen stimulation. Thrombin addition was followed by rapid alterations in the amount of endogenous PI and PA. The decrease in PI was not precisely reciprocated by an increase in PA when thrombin was the stimulus. This apparent discrepancy could be explained by removal of a transient intermediate in PI metabolism, such as diglyceride, formed by PI-specific phospholipase C (Rittenhouse-Simmons, S., J. Clin. Invest.63: 580-587, 1979). Diglyceride would be unavailable for PA formation by diglyceride kinase, if hydrolyzed by diglyceride lipase (Bell, R. L., D. A. Kennerly, N. Stanford, and P. W. Majerus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A.76: 3238-3241, 1979) to yield arachidonate for prostaglandin endoperoxide formation. Thrombin-treated platelets also accumulated lysophospho-glycerides. Specifically, lysophosphatidyl ethanolamines accumulated within 15s following thrombin addition. Fatty acid and aldehyde analysis indicated phospholipase A2 activity, with an apparent preference for diacyl ethanolamine phosphoglycerides. In the case of collagen, these changes occurred concomitantly with aggregation and consumption of oxygen for prostaglandin endoperoxide formation.

These studies of endogenous phospholipid metabolism provide information supporting the existence of two previously postulated pathways for liberation of arachidonic acid from platelet phospholipids: (a) the combined action of PI-specific phospholipase C plus diglyceride lipase yielding arachidonate derived from PI; and (b) a phospholipase A2 acting primarily on diacyl ethanolamine phosphoglyceride.

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