PMID: 7520441Aug 26, 1994Paper

Human kit ligand (stem cell factor) modulates platelet activation in vitro.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
J GrabarekH Avraham

Abstract

The human stem cell factor (SCF), also termed c-Kit ligand (KL), is a hematopoietic growth factor produced by mesenchymal cells that induces proliferation of bone marrow progenitor cells, megakaryocytes, and mast cells via interaction with c-Kit, its cognate receptor. Expression of the c-kit gene was identified in human platelets by the polymerase chain reaction technique. The presence of the c-Kit receptor was demonstrated by the specific binding of 125I-KL/SCF to ADP-stimulated platelets. The identity of the c-Kit protein was confirmed by immunoreactivity with an anti-c-Kit-specific antibody and by its characterization as a phosphotyrosine-containing protein. Under constitutive conditions, c-Kit was found to be tyrosine-phosphorylated and was associated with a 85-kDa phosphoprotein that could be a fragment of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. These data indicate the presence of a new platelet surface molecule that could function in platelet activation. We demonstrate that the secondary wave of platelet aggregation and serotonin secretion induced by epinephrine and ADP, but not by the thromboxane analog U46619, was augmented by KL/SCF. The effect of KL/SCF on epinephrine/ADP-induced platelet activation appeared to be mediated in ...Continue Reading

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