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Volume 270, Number 22, Issue of June 2, pp. 13179-13185, 1995
©1995 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Mauro Torti , Giuseppe Ramaschi , Nathalie Montsarrat , Fabiola Sinigaglia , Cesare Balduini , Monique Plantavid , Monique Breton , Hugues Chap , Gerard Mauco

The synthesis of phosphatidylinositol 3`,4`-bisphosphate (PtdIns(3,4)P) in P-labeled human platelets induced by the tetrameric lectin concanavalin A and the physiological agonist thrombin were compared. Like thrombin, concanavalin A stimulated a time-dependent accumulation of PtdIns(3,4)P, which reached maximal levels after 5 min of stimulation. However, while synthesis of PtdIns(3,4)P induced by thrombin was dependent on platelet aggregation, the production of PtdIns(3,4)P induced by concanavalin A was unchanged when aggregation was prevented by the omission of stirring or when fibrinogen binding to platelets was inhibited by the tetrapeptide RGDS. Accumulation of PtdIns(3,4)P was not observed in platelets stimulated with succinyl-concanavalin A, a dimeric derivative of the lectin that binds to the same receptors on the platelet surface but does not promote clustering of membrane glycoproteins. The synthesis of PtdIns(3,4)P induced by concanavalin A was also independent of the membrane glycoprotein IIb-IIIa, as normal accumulation of this lipid was observed in platelets from two patients affected by Glanzmann thrombasthenia. In contrast, thrombin showed a strongly reduced ability to stimulate PtdIns(3,4)P production in thrombasthenic platelets. Although concanavalin A was able to induce association of the regulatory subunit of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase with tyrosine-phosphorylated proteins, the tyrosine kinase inhibitor tyrphostin AG-213 did not inhibit the lectin-induced synthesis of PtdIns(3,4)P. These results demonstrate the existence of a novel mechanism of PtdIns(3,4)P synthesis in human platelets, which is independent of glycoprotein IIb-IIIa and aggregation, but requires clustering of membrane glycoproteins. As clustering events occur during platelet aggregation promoted by physiological agonists, this new mechanism may also be involved in the aggregation-dependent production of PtdIns(3,4)P in thrombin-stimulated platelets.

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