Liberation of surface and internal platelet‐associated IgG (PA‐IgG) during platelet activation
- 1 August 1986
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Haematology
- Vol. 63 (4), 785-794
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2141.1986.tb07562.x
Abstract
The relationship between platelet-associated IgG (PA-IgG) of intact platelets to that of lysed platelets has been studied using a competitive ELISA. In platelets from 20 normal individuals mean surface PA-IgG constituted 35% of mean total PA-IgG and showed a significant linear relationship with total PA-IgG. In platelets from 61 patients with various forms of thrombocytopenia including that with immune causes, 38 showed a similar proportion of PA-IgG on the surface after storage at 2 degrees C, as seen in normal platelets, while in 23, levels of surface and total PA-IgG were equal. Normal platelets activated with thrombin or calcium ionophore A23187, also had levels of surface PA-IgG close to total PA-IgG. Supernatants of platelet suspensions activated with aggregating agents contained increased amounts of IgG and when the platelets were washed, both total and surface PA-IgG were decreased. Liberation of IgG from platelets was slower than that of [14C]serotonin but was decreased by release reaction inhibitors. Platelets treated at 2 degrees C with soluble heat-aggregated IgG, which binds to the Fc gamma receptor, showed increased surface PA-IgG, but, after incubation at 37 degrees C, although [14C]serotonin was released, PA-IgG levels were no longer increased. Thus since platelet activation, including that mediated by IgG binding to the Fc gamma receptor, causes PA-IgG release, levels of both surface-located and total PA-IgG may be affected by platelet activation, either in vivo, or in vitro during sample preparation and assay.Keywords
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