Thrombin receptor structure and function.
Thrombin receptor structure and function.
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凝血酶受体的结构和功能。
DOI:
10.1101/sqb.1992.057.01.019
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发表时间:
1992
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通讯作者:
Hung,DT
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作者:
Coughlin,SR;Scarborough,RM;Vu,TK;Hung,DT
How do proteases that interact with the cell surface cause intracellular signaling events? One answer to this question was provided by the recent cloning and characterization of a functional thrombin receptor reviewed herein (Liu et al. 1991; Rasmussen et al. 1991; Vu et al. 1991a, b; Coughlin et al. 1992; Hung et al. 1992a, b, c, d; Scarborough et al. 1992). Thrombin is a multifunctional serine protease generated at sites of vascular injury. Its varied actions on both soluble protein substrates and cells may be viewed as orchestrating not only hemostatic responses, but also perhaps inflammatory and proliferative responses to wounding. In addition to cleaving fibrinogen to the fibrin monomer to form the fibrous meshwork of blood clots, thrornbin is a potent activator of a number of cell types. First and foremost, thrombin is the most potent stimulator of platelet aggregation (Davey and Luscher 1967; Shuman 1986), a thrombin activity probably critical in arterial thrombosis in vivo (Hanson and Harker 1988; Eidt et al. 1989; Fitzgerald and Fitzgerald 1989; Heras et al. 1989; Jang et al. 1989). A variety of thrombin actions on other cells types have been defined largely in vitro. Thrombin is chemotactic for monocytes (Bar-Shavit et al. 1983) and mitogenic for lymphocytes and for mesenchymal cells, including vascular smooth muscle cells (Chen and Buchanan 1975; Chen et al. 1976; McNamara et al. 1992), and it has a number of effects on the vascular endothelium. These include stimulating endothelial production of prostacyclin (Weksler et al. 1978), platelet-activating factor (Prescott et al. 1984), plasminogen activator-inhibitor (Gelehrter and Sznycer-Laszyk 1986), and the potent smooth muscle cell mitogen platelet-derived growth factor (Daniel et al. 1986), Thrombin also induces neutrophil adherence to the vessel wall (Zimmerman et al. 1986), probably by stimulating the expression of P-selectin on the endothelial surface (Hattori et al. 1989). Whether these disparate actions of thrombin are important mediators of inflammatory and proliferative responses in vivo remains to be defined. Identification of the receptor responsible for thrombin activation of platelets and other cells held the possibility of providing reagents for addressing such issues and of providing a new target for antithrombotic therapy and possibly antiproliferative or anti-inflammatory therapies. Theories of possible mechanisms by which thrombin might activate platelets and other cells have included classical receptor occupancy, proteolytic cleavage of a receptor, and combinations thereof (Berndt et al. 1985;