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Peptide Synthesis> | … The PAR1 activation peptide, SFLLRN‐NH 2 and TFLLRN‐NH 2 were from Tocris Bioscience (Minneapolis, MN, USA). PAR4 activation peptide, AYPGKF‐NH 2 , was from GenScript (Piscataway, NJ, USA). C4a (catalog no … | Get A Quote |
PCTP (phosphatidylcholine transfer protein) was discovered recently to regulate aggregation of human platelets stimulated with PAR4 activating peptide (PAR4AP). However, the role of PCTP following thrombin stimulation, the mechanisms by which PCTP contributes to platelet activation, and the role of PCTP with other receptors remained unknown. As mouse platelets do not express PCTP, we treated human platelets with various agonists in the presence of the specific PCTP inhibitor A1. We observed that PCTP inhibition significantly reduced dense granule secretion in response to thrombin, PAR1AP, PAR4AP, convulxin (GPVI agonist) and FcγRIIA crosslinking. In contrast, among these agonists, PCTP inhibition reduced aggre... More