The Quebec platelet disorder (QPD) is an autosomal dominant platelet disorder associated with delayed bleeding and cy-granule protein degradation. The degradation of a-granule, but not plasma, fibrinogen in patients with the QPD led to the investigation of their platelets for a protease defect. Unlike normal platelets, QPD platelets contained large amounts of fibrinolytic serine proteases that had properties of plasminogen activators. Western blot analysis, zymography, and immunodepletion experiments indicated this was because QPD platelets contained large amounts of urokinase-type plasminogen activator (U-PA) within a secretory compartment, u-PA antigen was not increased in all QPD plasmas, whereas it was increased more than 100-fold in QPD platelets (P < .00009), which contained increased u-PA messenger RNA. Although QPD platelets contained 2-fold more plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1) (P < .0008) and 100-fold greater u-PA-PAI-1 complexes (P < .0002) than normal platelets, they contained excess u-PA activity, predominantly in the form of two chain (tcu-PA), which required additional PAI-1 for full inhibition. There was associated proteolysis of plasminogen in QPD platelets, to forms that comigrated with plasmin, When similar amounts of tcu-PA were incubated with normal platelet secretory proteins, many cu-granule proteins were proteolyzed to forms that resembled degraded QPD platelet proteins. These data implicate u-PA in the pathogenesis of cu-granule protein degradation in the QPD, Although patients with the QPD have normal to increased u-PA levels in their plasma, without evidence of systemic fibrinogenolysis, their increased platelet u-PA could contribute to bleeding by accelerating fibrinolysis within the hemostatic plug. QPD is the only inherited bleeding disorder in humans known to be associated with increased u-PA. (C) 2001 by The American Society of Hematology.
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