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SUBMITTER: Jansen AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3277358 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jansen A J Gerard AJ Josefsson Emma C EC Rumjantseva Viktoria V Liu Qiyong Peter QP Falet Hervé H Bergmeier Wolfgang W Cifuni Stephen M SM Sackstein Robert R von Andrian Ulrich H UH Wagner Denisa D DD Hartwig John H JH Hoffmeister Karin M KM
Blood 20111118 5
When refrigerated platelets are rewarmed, they secrete active sialidases, including the lysosomal sialidase Neu1, and express surface Neu3 that remove sialic acid from platelet von Willebrand factor receptor (VWFR), specifically the GPIbα subunit. The recovery and circulation of refrigerated platelets is greatly improved by storage in the presence of inhibitors of sialidases. Desialylated VWFR is also a target for metalloproteinases (MPs), because GPIbα and GPV are cleaved from the surface of re ...[more]