Epinephrine correction of impaired platelet thromboxane receptor signaling

Autor: P. C. Dunlop, Gerhard J. Johnson, Linda A. Leis
Rok vydání: 2000
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Zdroj: American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology. 279:C1760-C1771
ISSN: 1522-1563
0363-6143
DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.2000.279.6.c1760
Popis: This study evaluated the mechanism of epinephrine potentiation of platelet secretion induced by thromboxane A2(TXA2). Dog platelets that do not secrete in response to TXA2alone (TXA2−) were compared with dog platelets that do secrete (TXA2+) and with human platelets. TXA2− platelets had impaired TXA2receptor (TP receptor)-G protein coupling, indicated by 1) impaired stimulated GTPase activity, 2) elevated basal guanosine 5′- O-(3-thiotriphosphate) binding, and 3) elevated Gαqpalmitate turnover that was corrected by preexposure to epinephrine. Kinetic agonist binding studies revealed biphasic dog and human platelet TP receptor association and dissociation. TXA2− and TP receptor-desensitized TXA2+ dog and human platelets had altered ligand binding parameters compared with untreated TXA2+ or human platelets. These parameters were reversed, along with impaired secretion, by epinephrine. Basal phosphorylation of TXA2− platelet TP receptors was elevated 60% and was normalized by epinephrine. Epinephrine potentiates platelet secretion stimulated by TXA2by reducing basal TP receptor phosphorylation and facilitating TP receptor-G protein coupling in TXA2− platelets and, probably, in normal platelets as well.
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