Response by Liu and Hu to Letter Regarding Article, "Class III PI3K Positively Regulates Platelet Activation and Thrombosis via PI(3)P-Directed Function of NADPH Oxidase"
Response by Liu and Hu to Letter Regarding Article, "Class III PI3K Positively Regulates Platelet Activation and Thrombosis via PI(3)P-Directed Function of NADPH Oxidase"
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Liu 和 Hu 对有关文章“III 类 PI3K 通过 NADPH 氧化酶的 PI(3)P 导向功能积极调节血小板活化和血栓形成”的信件的回复
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10.1161/atvbaha.118.310712
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2018
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Hu Hu
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Liu Yangyang;Hu Hu
We welcome the letter commenting on our recent study, which raised a question on whether the defective reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation and the impaired platelet activation associated with VPS34 (vacuolar protein sorting 34) deficiency are bona fide function of NADPH oxidase (NOX), as suggested by our study. 1 Our conclusion that platelet VPS34 functions through NOX (likely the isoform NOX2) and the generation of ROS thereof is based on the observations as follows:(1) VPS34 deficiency impairs NOX2 assembly;(2) VPS34 deficiency reduces the production of ROS;(3) NOX inhibition by DPI (diphenyleneiodonium) abolishes the aggregation difference between VPS34−/− and wild-type platelets, and supplementation of H2O2 rescues the aggregation defect of VPS34−/− platelets. Similar observation is obtained in human platelets by using VPS34 inhibitor 3-ma. These data strongly suggest that NOX2 is the main target of VPS34 in platelets although we do agree that including mice deficient in NOX2 and other NOX subunits would further clarify this point. We understand that the question mainly stems from the controversy between the previous reports on the importance of NOX for platelet activation. Hence, although the recent study using NOX1 and NOX2 deficient mice has proven that these 2 isoforms are selectively important for ROS generation and platelet activation, 2 there are previous reports showing that (1) murine platelets lacking NOX subunits, such as NOX2 or p47Phox, display normal ROS generation and aggregation responses to thrombin and collagen3, 4; and (2) human platelets deficient of NOX2 (from chronic granulomatous disease) also exhibit normal aggregation responses. 5, 6 However, it is notable that the inhibitory effects of NOX1 and NOX2 knockout on ROS generation and platelet aggregation diminish at high concentrations of agonists. 2 Consistent with the findings that VPS34 functions through NOX, VPS34 deficiency also causes an obvious inhibition of ROS production and platelet aggregation with low dose agonists stimulation (thrombin, 0.025 U/mL or collagen, 0.5 μg/mL), but the inhibition diminishes on the raise of the agonist dosage (thrombin, 0.05 U/mL or collagen, 1 μg/mL). Yet high concentrations of agonists (collagen, 30 μg/mL3; collagen, 4 μg/mL5; collagen, 2 μg/mL6; and CRP [collagen-related peptide], 1 μg/mL4) is the condition tested by the opposing studies (including the chronic granulomatous disease patient study5, 6) to evidence the insignificant role of NOX in platelet activation. Thus, comparison of the data obtained by different previous reports does not rule out the importance of NOX in platelet activation but rather suggests that the reliance of platelet activation on the VPS34-NOX axis is stimulation intensity-dependent.Nevertheless, both our study1 and the study conducted by Delaney et al2 demonstrate that low dose agonists (thrombin, 0.018 U/mL and 0.025 U/mL; collagen, 0.5 μg/mL; or CRP, 0.5 μg/mL) still activate significant ROS generation in platelets deficiency of NOX1, NOX2, or VPS34, suggesting the existence of other mechanisms of ROS generation independent of these proteins. The NOX family consists of 7 catalytic homologues, 7, 8 in addition to NOX1 and NOX2, NOX4 is also detected in platelets. 2 More recently, NOX5 is found expressed in platelets from patients with chronic granulomatous disease9 although it may not present in rodent platelets. 8 Unfortunately, except for NOX1 and NOX2, neither the individual role of NOX isoforms (eg, NOX4) in platelet activation nor the possible mutual compensational mechanism among them is currently understood. Because our study did …