Stimulated Cholesterol-enriched Platelets Display Increased Cytosolic Ca2+ and Phospholipase A Activity Independent of Changes in Inositol Trisphosphates and Agonist/receptor Binding

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Journal Biochem J

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 1990 Feb 1

PMID 2306212

Citations 4

Authors

A Sorisky

G L Kucera

S E Rittenhouse

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Abstract

To investigate the mechanism of enhanced responsiveness of cholesterol-enriched human platelets, we compared stimulation by surface-membrane-receptor (thrombin) and post-receptor (AlF4-) G-protein-directed pathways. Platelets were labelled with [32P]Pi and [methyl-3H] choline chloride, incubated with sonicated lipid dispersions of various ratios of cholesterol and phospholipid, and loaded with the fluorescent Ca2+ indicator fura-2. We report the following. (1) Cholesterol enrichment enhances cytosolic Ca2+ accumulation and phospholipase A activation in response to both receptor-directed and post-receptor-directed agonists. No enhancement by cholesterol of phospholipase A activity at fixed Ca2+ concentrations is observed in lysed platelets, implying that no perturbation by cholesterol of phospholipase A/substrate interaction occurs in our preparations. (2) In both normal and cholesterol-enriched platelets, Ca2+ mobilization is promoted by a factor(s) apart from InsP3 that appear(s) to be modulated by cholesterol. A disproportionate increase in cytosolic Ca2+ relative to [32P]InsP3 is observed with increasing doses of thrombin in normal, and to a larger extent in cholesterol-enriched, platelets. When AlF4- is the agonist, there is no cholesterol-associated enhancement in [32P]InsP3 to account for the heightened Ca2+ rise seen with cholesterol enrichment. (3) Enhanced phospholipase A activation is not necessarily proportional to cytosolic Ca2+ increase. The magnitude of the increase in phospholipase A activity for a given rise in cytosolic Ca2+ is greater in cholesterol-enriched platelets that are stimulated by AlF4- than in those stimulated by thrombin. We conclude that increased membrane microviscosity associated with cholesterol enrichment may promote G-protein/phospholipase A interaction as well as the Ca2(+)-release mechanism, without significantly altering G-protein/phospholipase C interaction.

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