Journal
CELL CALCIUM
Volume 57, Issue 4, Pages 300-311Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceca.2015.02.002
Keywords
Prion; Platelets; Intracellular calcium; Calpain; Microparticles
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- Department of Biotechnology (DBT)
- Department of Sciences and Technology (DST), Government of India
- Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
- DBT
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Prion diseases are neurodegenerative disorders where infectious prion proteins (PrP) accumulate in brain leading to aggregation of amyloid fibrils and neuronal cell death. The amino acid sequence 106-126 from prion proteins, PrP(106-126), is highly amyloidogenic and implicated in prion-induced pathologies. As PrP is known to be expressed in blood following leakage from brain tissue, we sought to investigate its biological effects on human platelets, which have been widely employed as 'peripheral' model for neurons. Our findings suggested that, PrP(106-126) (20 mu M) induced dramatic 30-fold rise in intracellular calcium (from 105 +/- 30 to 3425 +/- 525 nM) in platelets, which was attributable to influx from extracellular fluid with comparatively less contribution from intracellular stores. Calcium mobilization was associated with 8-10-fold stimulation in the activity of thiol protease calpain that led to partial cleavage of cytoskeleton-associated protein talin and extensive shedding of microparticles from platelets, thus transforming platelets to 'activated' phenotype. Both proteolysis of talin and microparticle release were precluded by calpeptin, a specific inhibitor of calpain. As microparticles are endowed with phosphatidylserin-eenriched surface and hence are pro-coagulant in nature, exposure to prion favored a thrombogenic state in the organism. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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