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BLOOD
Volume 125, Issue 2, Pages 219-222Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2014-08-597542
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB688]
- German Excellence Initiative to the Graduate School of Life Sciences, University of Wilrzburg
- National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)-National Institutes of Health
- NIH
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Platelet aggregation at sites of vascular injury is essential for hemostasis but also thrombosis. Platelet adhesiveness is critically dependent on agonist-induced inside-out activation of heterodimeric integrin receptors by a mechanism involving the recruitment of talin-1 to the cytoplasmic integrin tail. Experiments in heterologous cells have suggested a critical role of Rap1-guanosine triphosphate-interacting adaptor molecule (RIAM) for talin-1 recruitment and thus integrin activation, but direct in vivo evidence to support this has been missing. We generated RIAM-null mice and found that they are viable, fertile, and apparently healthy. Unexpectedly, platelets from these mice show unaltered beta 3- and beta 1-integrin activation and consequently normal adhesion and aggregation responses under static and flow conditions. Similarly, hemostasis and arterial thrombus formation were indistinguishable between wild-type and RIAM-null mice. These results reveal that RIAM is dispensable for integrin activation and function in mouse platelets, strongly suggesting the existence of alternative mechanisms of talin-1 recruitment.
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