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Gray platelet syndrome and defective thrombo-inflammation in Nbeal2-deficient mice

Journal of Clinical Investigation, ISSN: 0021-9738, Vol: 123, Issue: 8, Page: 3331-3342
2013
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Platelets are anuclear organelle-rich cell fragments derived from bone marrow megakaryocytes (MKs) that safeguard vascular integrity. The major platelet organelles, α-granules, release proteins that participate in thrombus formation and hemostasis. Proteins stored in α-granules are also thought to play a role in inflammation and wound healing, but their functional significance in vivo is unknown. Mutations in NBEAL2 have been linked to gray platelet syndrome (GPS), a rare bleeding disorder characterized by macrothrombocytopenia, with platelets lacking α-granules. Here we show that Nbeal2-knockout mice display the characteristics of human GPS, with defective α-granule biogenesis in MKs and their absence from platelets. Nbeal2 deficiency did not affect MK differentiation and proplatelet formation in vitro or platelet life span in vivo. Nbeal2-deficient platelets displayed impaired adhesion, aggregation, and coagulant activity ex vivo that translated into defective arterial thrombus formation and protection from thrombo-inflammatory brain infarction following focal cerebral ischemia. In a model of excisional skin wound repair, Nbeal2-deficient mice exhibited impaired development of functional granulation tissue due to severely reduced differentiation of myofibroblasts in the absence of α-granule secretion. This study demonstrates that platelet α-granule constituents are critically required not only for hemostasis but also thrombosis, acute thrombo-inflammatory disease states, and tissue reconstitution after injury.

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Deppermann, Carsten; Cherpokova, Deya; Nurden, Paquita; Schulz, Jan-Niklas; Thielmann, Ina; Kraft, Peter; Vögtle, Timo; Kleinschnitz, Christoph; Dütting, Sebastian; Krohne, Georg; Eming, Sabine A; Nurden, Alan T; Eckes, Beate; Stoll, Guido; Stegner, David; Nieswandt, Bernhard

American Society for Clinical Investigation

Medicine

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