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ArticleThe Biochemical journal2009

Identification of Tspan9 as a novel platelet tetraspanin and the collagen receptor GPVI as a component of tetraspanin microdomains.

Majd B Protty, Nicholas A Watkins, Dario Colombo, Steven G Thomas, Victoria L Heath, John M J Herbert, Roy Bicknell, Yotis A Senis, Leonie K Ashman, Fedor Berditchevski and 3 more

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Article in The Biochemical journal, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37 citing papers in PubMed, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Majd B ProttyCentre for Cardiovascular Sciences, Institute of Biomedical Research, The Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B152TT, UK.
Nicholas A Watkins
Dario Colombo
Steven G Thomas
Victoria L Heath
John M J Herbert
Roy Bicknell
Yotis A Senis
Leonie K Ashman
Fedor Berditchevski
Willem H Ouwehand
Steve P Watson
Michael G Tomlinson
University of Newcastle Australia · AU

Funding

British Heart Foundation FS/08/034/25085Medical Research Council G0400247
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Platelets are essential for wound healing and inflammatory processes, but can also play a deleterious role by causing heart attack and stroke. Normal platelet activation is dependent on tetraspanins, a superfamily of glycoproteins that function as 'organisers' of cell membranes by recruiting other receptors and signalling proteins into tetraspanin-enriched microdomains. However, our understanding of how tetraspanin microdomains regulate platelets is hindered by the fact that only four of the 33 mammalian tetraspanins have been identified in platelets. This is because of a lack of antibodies to most tetraspanins and difficulties in measuring mRNA, due to low levels in this anucleate cell. To identify potentially platelet-expressed tetraspanins, mRNA was measured in their nucleated progenitor cell, the megakaryocyte, using serial analysis of gene expression and DNA microarrays. Amongst 19 tetraspanins identified in megakaryocytes, Tspan9, a previously uncharacterized tetraspanin, was relatively specific to these cells. Through generating the first Tspan9 antibodies, Tspan9 expression was found to be tightly regulated in platelets. The relative levels of CD9, CD151, Tspan9 and CD63 were 100, 14, 6 and 2 respectively. Since CD9 was expressed at 49000 cell surface copies per platelet, this suggested a copy number of 2800 Tspan9 molecules. Finally, Tspan9 was shown to be a component of tetraspanin microdomains that included the collagen receptor GPVI (glycoprotein VI) and integrin alpha6beta1, but not the von Willebrand receptor GPIbalpha or the integrins alphaIIbbeta3 or alpha2beta1. These findings suggest a role for Tspan9 in regulating platelet function in concert with other platelet tetraspanins and their associated proteins.

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AnimalsBlood PlateletsBlotting, WesternCell LineCell Line, TumorCells, CulturedHumansMegakaryocytesMembrane MicrodomainsMembrane ProteinsMiceMicroscopy, ConfocalOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisPlatelet Membrane GlycoproteinsRNA, MessengerTetraspaninsMembrane ProteinsPlatelet Membrane Glycoproteinsplatelet membrane glycoprotein VIRNA, MessengerTetraspaninsTSPAN9 protein, human

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PMID18795891
PMCPMC2652832
OpenAlexW2098573845

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