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  • Title: Effect of thrombin inhibitors on thrombin-induced platelet release and aggregation.
    Author: Knupp CL.
    Journal: Thromb Res; 1988 Jan 01; 49(1):23-36. PubMed ID: 3347926.
    Abstract:
    Thrombin-induced platelet activation was interrupted with hirudin or Dansylarginine N-(3-ethyl-1-5-pentanediyl) amide (DAPA) to study the time requirement for receptor occupancy by thrombin in promoting platelet responses at low (0.25 U/ml), intermediate (0.5 U/ml) and high (1 U/ml) thrombin concentrations. Each of these thrombin inhibitors suppressed adenosine triphosphate (ATP) release and aggregation by thrombin when added either before or simultaneously with thrombin or within seconds of the initiation of these responses by thrombin. If the inhibitors were added later, yet before aggregation or release was complete, no effect was present. The period of time for which active thrombin was required in order to promote these reactions had the following characteristics: (i) it is thrombin concentration dependent for a given response; (ii) it is longer for aggregation than for ATP secretion at each thrombin concentration; (iii) it is increased in platelets modified by chymotrypsin or platelets partially inhibited by antimycin A and 2-deoxy-D-glucose, which have prolonged aggregation and ATP release responses. In direct comparison studies, the inhibitory effects of hirudin and DAPA were identical on aggregation and ATP release. Thrombin binding, under similar experimental conditions identical to those used to measure platelet activation, was prevented by hirudin, but not by DAPA. Therefore, the effect of DAPA on thrombin must be at the proteolytic site region and not at the hirudin-inhibitable platelet binding region. It is concluded from these studies that the tight coupling requirements for thrombin to induce platelet dense granule release and aggregation are directly dependent upon both the thrombin concentration and the rate of the individual platelet responses. Catalytic site integrity is required for the duration of this period of receptor occupancy.
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