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BLOOD
Volume 119, Issue 5, Pages 1263-1273Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2011-05-355628
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- National Institutes of Health [PO1 HL056949, HL089224, PO1 HL107146, HL094596]
- Pew Scholars Award
- Stichting Vrieden van de Bloedtransfusie and Stichting De Drie Lichten
- Gothenburg University
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When refrigerated platelets are rewarmed, they secrete active sialidases, including the lysosomal sialidase Neu1, and express surface Neu3 that remove sialic acid from platelet von Willebrand factor receptor (VWFR), specifically the GPIb alpha subunit. The recovery and circulation of refrigerated platelets is greatly improved by storage in the presence of inhibitors of sialidases. Desialylated VWFR is also a target for metalloproteinases (MPs), because GPIb alpha and GPV are cleaved from the surface of refrigerated platelets. Receptor shedding is inhibited by the MP inhibitor GM6001 and does not occur in Adam17(Delta Zn/Delta Zn) platelets expressing inactive ADAM17. Critically, desialylation in the absence of MP-mediated receptor shedding is sufficient to cause the rapid clearance of platelets from circulation. Desialylation of platelet VWFR therefore triggers platelet clearance and primes GPIb alpha and GPV for MP-dependent cleavage. (Blood. 2012;119(5): 1263-1273)
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