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  • Title: Ultrastructural localization of platelet factor 4 in rat megakaryocytes and platelets by gold-labeled antibody detection.
    Author: Hegyi E, Nakeff A.
    Journal: Exp Hematol; 1989 Mar; 17(3):223-8. PubMed ID: 2917621.
    Abstract:
    The pattern of distribution of platelet factor 4 (PF-4) was studied in rat platelets and megakaryocytes following immunohistochemical labeling with a monoclonal antibody (2E7) specific for PF-4 and visualization by a protein A-gold complex. We observed a heterogeneity in PF-4 expression among alpha granules with a minority of them being unlabeled by immunoelectron microscopy, a pattern similar in both mature, circulating platelets and developing megakaryocytes. Furthermore, the majority of the labeled alpha granules in both cell types displayed a unique, eccentric localization of the PF-4 that was mainly over the nucleoid region within each granule. This localization is similar to the microtubular localization in alpha granules reported previously for von Willebrand factor and yet distinct from the reported random distribution of fibrinogen. We also observed significant labeling of small vesicular structures in developing megakaryocytes that may be involved in the transport of PF-4 and its packaging in platelet alpha granules. This new information is important in relating patterns of PF-4 biogenesis in megakaryocytes to conditions of alpha granular dysfunction in platelets.
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