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Effect of phospholipase C (Bacillus cereus) on freshly isolated and 4-day-stored human platelets.

ABSTRACT: Phospholipase C (from Bacillus cereus) was used to study fresh and stored human platelets. Provided that the enzyme was inactivated before lipid extraction, no significant degradation of phospholipid in fresh cells was noted, even when platelets were activated or induced to change shape by ADP, collagen or thrombin. With platelets isolated from concentrates stored for transfusion for 4 days at 22 degrees C, membrane phospholipids were degraded by the enzyme to an extent depending on the pH in the platelet concentrate at day 4 of storage. The extent of phospholipid hydrolysis in platelets correlated well with the extent of release of lactate dehydrogenase during storage, with both being minimal for platelets from concentrates of final pH 6.5-6.9. Under non-lytic conditions, phosphatidylcholine was the phospholipid most degraded (40%), with no significant degradation of phosphatidylserine being detected. Storage does not seem to alter the distribution of phospholipids at the external leaflet of the plasma membrane.

SUBMITTER: Solberg C

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1144190 | biostudies-other | 1984 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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