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Blood, 15 September 2006, Vol. 108, No. 6, pp. 1911-1918.
Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on May 23, 2006; DOI 10.1182/blood-2006-02-004267.
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Submitted February 16, 2006
Accepted May 9, 2006
Impaired 'outside-in' integrin IIb 3 signaling and thrombus stability in TSSC6-deficient mice
Matt W Goschnick, Lai-Man Lau, Janet L Wee, Yong S Liu, P M Hogarth, Lorraine M Robb, Michael J Hickey, Mark D Wright, and Denise E Jackson*
Kronheimer Building,Burnet Institute Incorporating the Austin Research Institute,Victoria,Australia
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
* Corresponding author; email: d.jackson{at}burnet.edu.au.
We investigated the role of the hematopoietic specific tetraspanin superfamily member, TSSC6, in platelet function using wild-type mice and TSSC6 deficient mice. TSSC6 is expressed on the surface of murine platelets and is upregulated by thrombin stimulation, indicating an intracellular pool of TSSC6. Immunoprecipitation/western blot studies reveal a constitutive physical association of TSSC6 with integrin IIb 3 complex under strong detergent conditions. In vivo evaluation of hemostasis by tail bleeding revealed increased bleeding time, volume of blood lost, and evidence of tail rebleeds in TSSC6 null mice indicating unstable haemostasis. Using ex vivo techniques, we showed that TSSC6-deficient platelets exhibited impaired kinetics of clot retraction, platelet aggregation at lower doses of PAR-4 and collagen and platelet spreading on fibrinogen in the presence of normal integrin IIb 3 expression. TSSC6-deficient platelets showed normal alpha granule secretion, normal 'inside-out' integrin IIb 3 signaling (FITC-fibrinogen and JON/A binding), and normal platelet adhesion on fibrinogen. Furthermore, we show that absence of platelet TSSC6 affects the secondary stability of arterial thrombi in vivo upon vascular injury. These data demonstrate that TSSC6 appears to regulate integrin IIb 3 'outside-in' signaling events in platelets and is necessary for stability of arterial thrombi in vivo.

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