Platelets permeabilized by high voltage electric discharges have provided a valuable model system in which to analyse the roles of Ca²⁺ ions and guanine nucleotides in the regulation of secretion by exocytosis. In the present study, the effects of fluoride or fluoroaluminate and of vanadate or pervanadate on secretion of platelet dense granule constituents, and the roles of activation of phospholipase D (PLD), phospholipase C (PLC) and protein kinase C (PKC) in secretion, have been investigated. Electropermeabilized human platelets containing [¹⁴C]5-HT in their dense granules were suspended in a glutamate medium containing ATP and incubated for 10 min at 25°C with, variously, Ca²⁺ buffers, KF/AlCl₃, vanadate/H₂O₂, guanine nucleotides and phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA). KF/AlCl₃, which activates heterotrimeric G proteins but not low-M, GTP-binding proteins, caused a Ca²⁺ -dependent [¹⁴C]5-HT secretion; maximal effects were obtained with 10 mM KF plus 10 μM AlCl₃ at a pCa of 6, when 53% of [¹⁴C]5-HT was released. Secretion induced by KF/AlCl₃ in the presence of Ca²⁺ correlated with
the stimulation of [3H]diacylglycerol accumulation in permeabilized platelets containing [³H]arachidonate-labelled phospholipids. KF/AlCl₃ also stimulated the phosphorylation of pleckstrin (P47) in permeabilized platelets incubated with [γ-³²P]ATP, indicating the activation of PKC. In the absence of Ca²⁺ (pCa > 9), KF/AlCl₃ caused none of the above effects. These actions of KF/AlCl₃ were attnbutable to the activation of PLC, since KF/AlCl₃ also stimulated the formation of [³H]inositol phosphates in [³H]inositol-labelled permeabilized platelets in the
presence of Ca²⁺. PLD activity, measured as the formation of[³H]phosphatidylethanol (PEt) from [³H]arachidonate-labelled phospholipids in the presence of ethanol, could not be detected after stimulation of platelets by KF/AlCl₃ in the absence or presence of Ca²⁺. However, KF/AlCl₃ inhibited the [³H]PEt formation (PLD activity) induced by GTPγS. In the absence of Ca²⁺ (pCa >9), the inhibitory effects of KF/AlCl₃ on [¹⁴C]5-HT secretion induced by GTPγS alone or GTPγS plus PMA correlated well with their inhibitory effects on [³H]PEt formation. At pCa 6, KF/AlCl₃ had only a small inhibitory effect on GTPγS-induced secretion
and inhibited GTPγS-induced PLD activity more strongly than GTPγS-induced PLC activity. These results suggest that PLD is important for Ca²⁺ -independent secretion, and that, although both PLD and PLC may play roles in Ca²⁺ -dependent secretion, PLC is likely to be the more important. In the presence of Ca²⁺, either vanadate or H₂O₂ caused concentration-dependent stimulations of [¹⁴C]5-HT secretion, [³H]DAG formation and [³H]PEt formation. At pCa 6, low concentrations of vanadate and H₂O₂, which would be expected to form pervanadate, acted synergistically to stimulate [¹⁴C]5-HT secretion, which correlated with [³H]DAG formation. However, vanadate with H₂O₂ had a biphasic effect on PLD activity that did not correlate with secretion. In addition, at pCa 6, GTPγS-induced PLD activity was abolished by vanadate with H₂O₂, whereas GTPγS-induced secretion and PLC activity were only partially inhibited. These results support the idea that both PLC and PLD are involved in the regulation of secretion but have different contributions to Ca²⁺ dependent and Ca²⁺ -independent secretion. The results are consistent with activation of platelet PLC by a heterotrimeric G protein, but suggest that different mechanisms, possibly involving a low-M, GTP-binding protein, may be involved in the regulation of PLD activity. / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:mcmaster.ca/oai:macsphere.mcmaster.ca:11375/22719 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Du, Qun |
| Contributors | Haslam, Richard, Biochemistry |
| Source Sets | McMaster University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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