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2014 (English)In: Thrombosis and Haemostasis, ISSN 0340-6245, E-ISSN 2567-689X, Vol. 112, no 3, p. 558-565Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Thrombin-induced platelet activation via PAR1 and PAR4 is an important event in haemostasis. Although the underlying mechanisms responsible for ensuring efficient PAR1 activation by thrombin have been extensively studied, the potential involvement of recognitions sites outside the active site of the protease in thrombin-induced PAR4 activation is largely unknown. In this study, we developed a new assay to assess the importance of exosite I and II for PAR4 activation with alpha- and gamma-thrombin. Surprisingly, we found that exosite II is critical for activation of PAR4. We also show that this dependency on exosite II likely represents a new mechanism, as it is unaffected by blockage of the previously known interaction between thrombin and glycoprotein Ib alpha.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Schattauer Gmbh, 2014
National Category
Clinical Medicine
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-111269 (URN)10.1160/TH13-12-1013 (DOI)000341547000015 ()24990072 (PubMedID)
Note
Funding Agencies|Swedish Research Council [K2010-65X-15060-07-3, K2013-65X-15060-10-3]; Swedish Heart and Lung Foundation [20100219, 20120263]
2014-10-152014-10-142023-08-28Bibliographically approved