Journal of Cell Science, Vol 108, Issue 3 1155-1164, Copyright © 1995 by Company of Biologists

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The functional thrombin receptor is associated with the plasmalemma and a large endosomal network in cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells

R Horvat and GE Palade
University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine 92093-0651, USA.

The functional thrombin receptor, normally expressed by endothelial cells and platelets, is a member of the G protein-coupled, seven membrane-spanning-domain receptor family and is thought to be responsible for most, if not all, the cell stimulatory effects of thrombin. Upon binding, thrombin cleaves the receptor's N-terminal ectodomain, unmasking a new N terminus, which by itself activates the receptor. Using antibodies to different domains of the human thrombin receptor, we have localized the receptor in cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells by indirect immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopy. We found the receptor expressed on the plasmalemma of cultured endothelial cells in individual units rather than in clusters, at lower concentration than, and at different sites from, thrombomodulin. We also found the receptor associated with a distinct, intracellular, transferrin receptor-containing, tubulovesicular network. The thrombin receptor-positive structure spread from the perinuclear region to the periphery of the cells, exhibiting a number of varicosities interconnected by branching tubular elements, strikingly similar to an image recently described for a continuous endosomal reticulum. Our results provide morphological evidence for the presence of the functional thrombin receptor at relative low density on the surface of cultured endothelial cells (compared to thrombomodulin) and in relatively large quantities inside the cells, associated with an endosomal compartment.

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