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BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 384, Issue 9, Pages 1333-1339Publisher
WALTER DE GRUYTER & CO
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2003.150
Keywords
coagulation; fibrinogenolysis; nitric oxide
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Hementerin (HT) is an 80 kDa fibrino(geno)lytic metalloprotease, purified from saliva of the leech Haementeria depressa. In the present report, the effect of HT on several functional parameters of human platelets was assessed. HT inhibited platelet aggregation and ATP release induced by different agonists such as ADP, adrenaline, collagen, thrombin, and arachidonic acid. HT did neither modify the expression of platelet glycoproteins (Ib, IIbIIIa, IaIIa, IV) nor intraplatelet fibrinogen levels, whereas it markedly decreased CD62P and CD63 levels after the stimulation with thrombin. HT significantly increased thrombininduced platelet Ca2+ intracellular levels, cGMP content and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity. The effect of HT on platelet aggregation was reversed by two NOS inhibitors, N-omega-Nitro-L-arginine methyl ester and 2 N-G-Nitro-L-arginine. In summary, these results indicate that HT is an effective inhibitor of human platelet aggregation, presumably through activation of the platelets nitridergic pathway.
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