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  • Title: Control of platelet glycogenolysis; Activation of phosphorylase kinase by calcium.
    Author: Gear AR, Schneider W.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1975 May 05; 392(1):111-20. PubMed ID: 164952.
    Abstract:
    An apparent enigma during platelet aggregation is that increased glycogenolysis occurs despite a fall in cyclic AMP levels; Activation by a classical cascade is therefore unlikely, and an alternative stimulus for phosphorylase a formation was sought. It was found that low levels of Ca-2+ markedly activate phosphorylase b kinase from human platelets, with a Ka of 0i muM Ca-2+, which is similar to that for the skeletal muscle enzyme; The kinase activity is unstable, and on enzyme ageing is a 50% loss in activity with the Ka decreasing to 0.33 muM Ca-2+. In unstilulated platelets, phosphorylase a was 13.3% of toal measured activity, and glycogen synthetase I was 32.3%. Aggregation induced by ADP did not change the percentage of I synthetase, while increasing that for phosphorylase a. Dibutyryl cyclic AMP did, as expected, increase the percentage of both phosphorylated enzymes; These findings suggest that the natural activator of platelet glycogenolysis during aggregation is Ca-2+, which directly stimulates phosphorylase b kinase without altering glycogen synthetase activity. The cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase does not appear to be involved;
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