scholarly journals Studies on the bivalent-cation-activated ATPase activities of highly purified human platelet surface and intracellular membranes

1986 ◽  
Vol 233 (3) ◽  
pp. 661-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
N Hack ◽  
M Croset ◽  
N Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Atpase Activity ◽  
Blood Platelets ◽  
Present Report ◽  
Surface Membrane ◽  
Storage Site ◽  
Intracellular Membrane ◽  
Bivalent Cation ◽  
Platelet Surface ◽  
Intracellular Membranes ◽  
Dependent Transport

Membrane-bound Ca2+-ATPases are responsible for the energy-dependent transport of Ca2+ across membrane barriers against concentration gradients. Such enzymes have been identified in sarcoplasmic reticulum of muscle tissues and in non-muscle cells in both surface membranes and endoplasmic-reticulum-like intracellular membrane complexes. In a previous study using membrane fractionation by density-gradient and free-flow electrophoresis, we reported that the intracellular membranes of human blood platelets were a major storage site for Ca2+ and involved in maintaining low cytosol [Ca2+] in the unactivated cell. In the present report we demonstrated that the intracellular membranes also exhibit a high-affinity Ca2+-ATPase which appears to be kinetically associated with the Ca2+-sequestering process. We found that both the surface membrane and the intracellular membrane exhibited a basal Mg2+-ATPase activity, but Ca2+ activation of this enzyme was confined only to the intracellular membrane. Use of Ca2+-EGTA buffers to control the extravesicle [Ca2+] allowed a direct comparison of the Ca2+-ATPase and the Ca2+-uptake process over a Ca2+ range of 0.01 microM to 1.0 mM, and it was found that both properties were maximally expressed in the range of external [Ca2+] 1-50 microM, with concentrations greater than 100 microM showing substantial inhibition. Double-reciprocal plots for the Ca2+-ATPase activity and Ca2+ uptake gave apparent Km values for Ca2+ of 0.15 and 0.13 microM respectively. However, similar plots for ATP with the enzyme revealed a discontinuity (two affinity sites, with Km 20 and 145 microM), whereas plots for the Ca2+ uptake gave a single Km value for Ca2+, 1.1 microM. Phosphorylation studies during Ca2+ uptake using [gamma-32P]ATP revealed two components of 90 and 95 kDa phosphorylated at extravesicle [Ca2+] of 3 microM. The Ca2+-ATPase activity, Ca2+ uptake and phosphorylation were all almost completely inhibited in the presence of 500 microM-Ca2+. Similar studies using mixed membranes revealed four other phosphoproteins (50, 40, 20 and 18 kDa) formed in addition to the 90 and 95 kDa components. The findings are discussed in the context of platelet Ca2+ mobilization for function and the mechanisms whereby Ca2+ homoeostasis is controlled in the unactivated cell.

scholarly journals Two-dimensional polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis of the proteins and glycoproteins of purified human platelet surface and intracellular membranes

1984 ◽  
Vol 222 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
N Hack ◽  
N Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Concanavalin A ◽  
Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Periodic Acid ◽  
Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Surface Membrane ◽  
Actin Binding ◽  
Good Resolution ◽  
Intracellular Membrane ◽  
Neuraminidase Treatment ◽  
Platelet Surface

By using highly purified surface and intracellular membrane fractions prepared from human platelets by free-flow electrophoresis, the polypeptide and glycopeptides of these membranes have been characterized by high-resolution gel electrophoresis under reducing and non-reducing conditions. Silver staining and a variety of glycoprotein-staining procedures have been applied to identify the major components. The principal finding was the clear disparity between the distribution patterns for these two membrane fractions. There are proportionately more low-Mr acidic components present in the intracellular membrane than in the surface-derived membrane. Of the major platelet surface glycoproteins GPIb, IIb, IIIa and IIIb (or IV) well expressed in the surface membrane only, GPIIb and IIIa appear as trace components in the intracellular membrane. The cytoskeleton proteins, actin, myosin, tropomyosin, actin-binding protein and alpha-actinin are prominent features of the surface membrane and essentially absent from the intracellular membrane. Neuraminidase treatment at the whole-cell level, before homogenization, which is an essential requirement for good resolution of the two membrane subfractions, modifies a number of the glycoprotein subunits with respect to their pI characteristics, suggesting much molecular micro-heterogeneity with respect to sialic acid content. A comparison of the staining characteristics of the major glycoproteins with periodic acid/Schiff's reagent and concanavalin A/peroxidase detection and a combined procedure revealed significant differences in associated carbohydrate structures, and the major concanavalin A-binding component was shown to be GPIIIa. These observations are discussed in the context of functional activities of both membrane systems in the physiological behaviour of the platelet.

scholarly journals Localization of cyclo-oxygenase and thromboxane synthetase in human platelet intracellular membranes

1982 ◽  
Vol 204 (3) ◽  
pp. 847-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Carey ◽  
S Menashi ◽  
N Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Arachidonic Acid ◽  
Human Platelet ◽  
Surface Membrane ◽  
Membrane Vesicles ◽  
Intracellular Membrane ◽  
Intracellular Membranes ◽  
Selective Enrichment ◽  
Thromboxane Synthetase ◽  
Tubular Membranes

Platelet mixed membrane fractions can be separated into discrete vesicle subpopulations of surface and intracellular origin. Intracellular membrane vesicles are the predominant site of phospholipid-modifying enzymes that liberate arachidonic acid. We report the selective enrichment in intracellular membranes of cyclo-oxygenase and thromboxane synthetase activities. Surface membrane fractions show no such enrichment. These results suggest that a sequence of activities leading to the biosynthesis of thromboxane from arachidonate is associated with the intracellular membrane elements known as dense tubular membranes.

Phospholipid Composition And Phospholipid-Modifying And Prostaglandin-Synthesising Enzymes In Human Platelet Surface And Intracellular Membranes Isolated By Free Flow Electrophoresis

1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
N Crawford ◽  
M Lagarde ◽  
S Menashi ◽  
F Carey
Keyword(s):  
Membrane Fraction ◽  
Reductase Activity ◽  
Surface Membrane ◽  
Analytical Data ◽  
Phospholipid Composition ◽  
Human Platelets ◽  
Free Flow ◽  
Intracellular Membrane ◽  
Platelet Surface ◽  
High Enrichment

A mixed membrane fraction prepared from human platelets which have been exposed to neuraminidase and surface labelled with 125I–Lens culinaris separates into three vesicle subpopulations in a high voltage free flow electrophoresis chamber [Bender Hobein/MSE]. One fraction [NI] which is devoid of the lectin label has exclusive localisation of NADH cytochrome–c–reductase activity with high enrichment [l2-14 fold]. The two less electronegative fractions [NII and NIII] account for the whole of the lectin label and have adenylate cyclase activity. Fraction NI which is believed to be of intracellular origin has a low cholesterol/phospholipid ratio [0.291 ± 0.014], negligible sphingomyelin and has a high fluidity as measured by fluorescence polarisation using diphenyl hexatriene. Fractions NII and NIII, believed to represent two different surface membrane domains, have high cholesterol/phospholipid ratios [0.606 ± 0.027 and 0.739 ± 0.054] are rich in sphingomyelin and have significantly higher microviscosities than NI . The polypeptide profile of NI is also particularly distinctive. Using 2[l-14C] arachidonyl phosphatidyl choline and 2[l-14C] arachidonyl diacyl-glycerol as substrates, phospholipase-A2 and diglyceride lipase activities have been measured in the three membrane fractions. Both enzymes are almost exclusively located in the intracellular membrane fraction NI with high enrichment ratios with respect to homogenate activities. Similarly cyclooxygenase and thromboxane synthetase activities are also largely confined to the intra-cellular membranes. Full analytical data for the phospholipid and fatty acid compositions of the surface and intracellular membrane fractions will also be presented.

scholarly journals A monoclonal antibody (PL/IM 430) to human platelet intracellular membranes which inhibits the uptake of Ca2+ without affecting the Ca2+ +Mg2+-ATPase

1988 ◽  
Vol 250 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
N Hack ◽  
J M Wilkinson ◽  
N Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Human Platelet ◽  
Blood Platelets ◽  
Membrane Vesicles ◽  
Intracellular Membrane ◽  
Dose Dependency ◽  
Intracellular Membranes ◽  
Maximum Inhibition ◽  
Igg1 Subclass ◽  
Energy Dependent ◽  
Human Blood Platelets

To probe the structure-function relationships of proteins present in the endoplasmic reticulum-like intracellular membranes of human blood platelets a panel of monoclonal antibodies have been raised, using as immunogen highly purified platelet intracellular membrane vesicles isolated by continuous flow electrophoresis [Menashi, Weintroub & Crawford (1981) J. Biol. Chem. 256, 4095-4101]. Four of these antibodies recognize a single 100 kDa polypeptide in the platelet membrane by immunoblotting. One antibody PL/IM 430 (of IgG1 subclass) inhibited (approximately 70%) the energy-dependent uptake of Ca2+ into the vesicles without affecting the Ca2+ +Mg2+-ATPase activity or the protein phosphorylation previously shown to proceed concomitantly with Ca2+ sequestration [Hack, Croset & Crawford (1986) Biochem. J. 233, 661-668]. The inhibition is independent of ATP concentration over a range 0-2 mM-ATP but shows dose-dependency for external [Ca2+] with maximum inhibition of Ca2+ translocation at concentrations of Ca2+ greater than 500 nM. This capacity of the antibody PL/IM 430 functionally to dislocate components of the intracellular membrane Ca2+ pump complex may have value in structural studies.

scholarly journals Localization and identification of Ca2+ATPases in highly purified human platelet plasma and intracellular membranes. Evidence that the monoclonal antibody PL/IM 430 recognizes the SERCA 3 Ca2+ATPase in human platelets

1995 ◽  
Vol 306 (3) ◽  
pp. 837-842 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Bokkala ◽  
S S el-Daher ◽  
V V Kakkar ◽  
F Wuytack ◽  
K S Authi
Keyword(s):  
Monoclonal Antibody ◽  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Complex Formation ◽  
Atpase Activity ◽  
Membrane Fraction ◽  
Plasma Membranes ◽  
Human Platelet ◽  
Human Platelets ◽  
Intracellular Membrane ◽  
Intracellular Membranes

The Ca2+ATPase activities of highly purified human platelet membranes prepared by high-voltage free-flow electrophoresis have been analysed by using [gamma-32P]ATP hydrolysis, recognition by antibodies and phosphoenzyme-complex formation. The Ca2+ATPase activity present in mixed membranes was found to be predominantly associated with intracellular membranes after subfractionation, with only a low level of activity associated with plasma membranes. The intracellular-membrane Ca2+ATPase activity was inhibited totally with thapsigargin (Tg), whereas the plasma-membrane Ca2+ATPase was not significantly affected, suggesting that the latter does not belong to the SERCA (sarco-endoplasmic-reticulum Ca2+ATPase) class. A monoclonal antibody, 5F10, raised to the red-cell membrane Ca2+ATPase [Cheng, Magocsi, Cooper, Penniston and Borke (1993) Cell Physiol. Biochem. 4, 31-43] recognized two bands at 135 and 150 kDa in mixed membranes and plasma membranes, and the corresponding bands in red-blood-cell membranes, confirming the Ca2+ATPase to be of the PMCA (plasma-membrane Ca2+ATPase) type. No recognition of any band was detected in intracellular membranes. Identification of the intracellular-membrane Ca2+ATPase activity was carried out with polyclonal antibodies with known specificity towards SERCA 2b (S.2b) and SERCA 3 (N89), and a monoclonal antibody, PL/IM 430, raised against platelet intracellular membranes. All of these antibodies recognized the 100 kDa Ca2+ATPase in mixed membranes and intracellular membranes, with little or no recognition of the activity in the plasma membranes. In some membrane preparations the antibody PL/IM 430 and antiserum N89 recognized similar degradation products, of 74, 70 and 40 kDa, in the intracellular-membrane fraction. The Ca2+ATPase recognized by PL/IM 430 was immunoprecipitated, and the immunoprecipitated protein was specifically recognized by the antiserum N89, but not by S.2b. Analysis of the phosphoenzyme-complex formation revealed potent phosphorylation of the 100 and 74 kDa peptides, both recognized by PL/IM 430 and N89. These studies report the presence of a PMCA in a purified plasma-membrane fraction from human platelets, and that the antibody PL/IM 430 recognizes the SERCA 3 Ca2+ATPase in intracellular membranes.

Differential Ability of Agonists to Express Distinct Pools of Fibrinogen (Gpllb/llla) Receptors which Can Mediate the Aggregation of Human Platelets

1989 ◽  
Vol 62 (03) ◽  
pp. 955-961 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian S Watts ◽  
Rebecca J Keery ◽  
Philip Lumley
Keyword(s):  
Platelet Aggregation ◽  
Human Platelet ◽  
Surface Membrane ◽  
Blood Platelet ◽  
Human Platelets ◽  
Membrane Glycoprotein ◽  
Platelet Surface ◽  
Human Platelet Aggregation ◽  
Differential Ability ◽  
Blood Platelet Aggregation

SummaryWe have investigated the effect of two procedures that modify human platelet surface membrane glycoprotein (Gp) IIb and IIIa complexes upon whole blood platelet aggregation to a range of agonists. (A) Irreversible disruption of complexes by temporary (30 min) Ca2+-deprivation with EGTA at 37° C. (B) Binding of a monoclonal antibody M148 to the complex. EGTA exposure abolished aggregation to ADP, adrenaline and PAF. In contrast, full aggregation curves to collagen and U-46619 could still be established. EGTA exposure reduced M148 binding to platelets by 80%. Excess M148 abolished aggregation to ADP, PAF, collagen and U-46619. However, upon removal of unbound antibody from platelets full aggregation curves to collagen and U-46619 but not to ADP and PAF could be re-established. Thus human platelet aggregation to ADP, PAF and adrenaline appears absolutely dependent upon surface membrane GpIIb/IIIa complexes. In contrast, collagen and U-46619 cause expression of an additional distinct pool of Gp complexes inaccessible to EGTA and M148 in unstimulated platelets which is intimately involved in aggregation to these agonists.

Action of Lysolecithin on Blood Platelets

1963 ◽  
Vol 09 (03) ◽  
pp. 512-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chava Kirschmann ◽  
Sara Aloof ◽  
Andre de Vries
Keyword(s):  
Blood Platelets ◽  
Protective Action ◽  
Platelet Surface ◽  
Washed Platelet ◽  
Sufficient Concentration ◽  
Saline Medium

SummaryLysolecithin is adsorbed to washed blood platelets and, at sufficient concentration, lyses them, inhibits their clot-retracting activity and promotes their thromboplastin-generating activity. Lysolecithin adsorption to the platelet was studied by using P32-labelled lysolecithin obtained from the liver of rats injected with labelled orthophosphate. The amount of lysolecithin adsorbed to the surface of the washed platelet in saline medium is dependent on the concentration of lysolecithin in solution and reaches saturation — 5 × 10-8 jig per platelet — at a concentration of 9—10 µg per ml. Platelet lysis in saline medium begins at a lysolecithin concentration higher than 18 jig per ml. Plasma and albumin prevent adsorption of lysolecithin to the platelet and protect the platelet from damage by lysolecithin. Albumin is able to remove previously adsorbed lysolecithin from the platelet surface. The protective action of plasma explains the lack of platelet damage in blood, the plasma lecithin of which has been converted to lysolecithin by the action of Vipera palestinae venom phosphatidase, in vitro and in vivo.

THROMBOXANE-A2 MEDIATES THE ACTION OF INOSITOL (1.4.5) TRISPHOSPHATE (IP3) IN SAPONIN-PERMEABILISED PLATELETS

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
K S Authi ◽  
B J Evenden ◽  
E J Hornby ◽  
N Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Phospholipase A2 ◽  
Shape Change ◽  
Thromboxane A2 ◽  
Thromboxane B2 ◽  
Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors ◽  
Storage Site ◽  
Platelet Surface ◽  
Surface Receptors ◽  
Thromboxane Receptor ◽  
Thromboxane Production

Inositol trisphosphate (IP3) has now been identified as an important intracellular second messenger that can initiate the release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores in a variety of cells, including platelets. We have studied the effects of IP3 on washed platelets permeabilised with saponin (12-14 μg/mi) which allows penetration into the cell of low M.Wt polar molecules. The permeabilised cells show normal responses to the agonists thrombin and collagen. The addition of IP (1-20 μM) after saponin treatment induces shape change, aggregation and secretion of preloaded [14C] 5HT. Concomitant with these responses, thromboxane is produced in a dose related manner. With 20 μM IP3 thromboxane B2 increases from basal levels of 5-4 ± 3-0 ng/ml to 140 ± 23 ng/ml. Both thromboxane production and the platelet responses induced by IP3 are inhibited by pretreatment with the cyclooxygenase inhibitors, indomethacin (EC50 50 μM) and aspirin (EC50 30 μM). Aggregation and secretion responses to IP3 are also inhibited by thromboxane B2 receptor agonists; EPO 92 (R. Jones, Edinburgh) and AH 23848 (Glaxo Ltd.). If Ca2+ EGTA buffers age used with permeabilised platelets to "lock" the cytosolic [Ca2+] at 0.1 μM, thromboxane production is reduced to the basal level. Intact platelets were labelled with Ca2+ (4h incubation) and after washing, resuspension and saponisation, IP3 induced the release of 20% of the cell associated Ca2+. The release was unaffected by pretreatment with antimycin and oligomycin indicating an gndoplasmic reticulum-lige storage site for the sequestered Ca2+. This IP3 -induced Ca2+ release was also not affected by pretreatment with either cyclooxygenase inhibitors or thromboxane receptor antagonists (EPO 92 and AH 23848). We believe these studies indicate that the action of IP3 in sagonised platelets involves release of intracellularly stored Ca2+, activation of phospholipase A2 and cyclooxygenase, and production of thromboxane A2. The release of thromboxane mediates and/or attenuates platelet responses by acting upon platelet surface receptors.

scholarly journals Synthesis of plasmalemmal glycoproteins in intestinal epithelial cells. Separation of Golgi membranes from villus and crypt cell surface membranes; glycosyltransferase activity of surface membrane

1978 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 722-734 ◽  
Author(s):  
MM Weiser ◽  
MM Neumeier ◽  
A Quaroni ◽  
K Kirsch
Keyword(s):  
Cell Surface ◽  
Atpase Activity ◽  
Surface Membrane ◽  
Basal Membrane ◽  
Crypt Cell ◽  
Velocity Sedimentation ◽  
Intact Cells ◽  
Microvillus Membrane ◽  
Villus Cell ◽  
Crypt Cells

The relationship between Golgi and cell surface membranes of intestinal cells was studied. These membranes were isolated from intestinal crypt cells and villus cells. The villus cell membranes consisted of microvillus membrane, a Golgi-rich fraction, and two membrane fractions interpreted as representing lateral-basal membranes. The villus cell microvillus membrane was purified by previously published techniques while the other membranes were obtained from isolated cells by differential centrifugation and density gradient velocity sedimentation. The two membrane fractions obtained from villus cells and considered to be lateral-basal membranes were enriched for Na+,K+-ATPase activity, but one also showed enrichment in glycosyltransferase activity. The Golgi membrane fraction was enriched for glycosyltransferase activity and had low to absent Na+,K+-ATPase activity. Adenylate cyclase activity was present in all membrane fractions except the microvillus membrane but co-purified with Golgi rather than lateral-basal membranes. Electron microscopy showed that the Golgi fraction consisted of variably sized vesicles and cisternalike structures. The two lateral-basal membrane fractions showed only vesicles of smaller, more uniform size. After 125I labeling of isolated intact cells, radioactivity was found associated with the lateral-basal and microvillus membrane fractions and not with the Golgi fraction. Antibody prepared against lateral-basal membrane fractions reacted with the surface membrane of isolated villus cells. The membrane fractions from isolated crypt cells demonstrated that all had high glycosyltransferase activity. The data show that glycosyltransferase activity, in addition to its Golgi location, may be a significant property of the lateral-basal portion of the intestinal villus cell plasma membrane. Data obtained with crypt cells support earlier data and show that the crypt cell surface membrane possesses glycosyltransferase activity.

scholarly journals The inhibition of platelet cyclo-oxygenase by aspirin is associated with the acetylation of a 72kDa polypeptide in the intracellular membranes

1984 ◽  
Vol 223 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
N Hack ◽  
F Carey ◽  
N Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Sodium Dodecyl ◽  
Membrane System ◽  
Particulate Material ◽  
Intracellular Membrane ◽  
Membrane Structures ◽  
Major Site ◽  
Intracellular Membranes ◽  
Oxygenase Activity ◽  
Radioactive Labelling

Previous studies by Roth & Majerus [J. Clin. Invest. (1975) 56, 624-632] showed that exposure of platelets to [acetyl-14C]aspirin resulted in the radioactive labelling of three polypeptides, two of which were in the cytosol and not saturable, whilst the third was located in particulate material, and was saturated at 30 microM-aspirin. By using high voltage free flow electrophoresis to separate a platelet mixed membrane fraction into highly purified surface and intracellular membrane subfractions, we have confirmed that the major polypeptide acetylated after exposing whole platelets to [acetyl-14C]aspirin is almost exclusively associated with intracellular membrane structures. We have shown previously that these intracellular membranes are the major site for prostanoid biosynthesis [Carey, Menashi & Crawford (1982) Biochem. J. 204, 847-851] and in the present study the extent of the radioactive labelling correlated well with inhibition of the cyclo-oxygenase activity in these intracellular membranes. In sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis the [14C]acetylated component, which appears to be a dimer, migrates with a mobility corresponding to 72kDa. Although cyclo-oxygenase is inhibited, there is no discernible radioactive labelling when the platelets are exposed to aromatic-ring-labelled [14C]aspirin. We suggest that the site or sites for aspirin acetylation and cyclo-oxygenase activity are structurally associated in the platelet's intracellular membranes referred to by electron microscopists as the dense tubular membrane system.

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