Journal of Cell Science, Vol 111, Issue 15 2181-2188, Copyright © 1998 by Company of Biologists

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Recruitment of the LIM protein hic-5 to focal contacts of human platelets

J Hagmann, M Grob, A Welman, G van Willigen and MM Burger
Friedrich Miescher-Institute, Basel, Switzerland.

Platelets are anuclear, membrane-bounded fragments derived from megakaryocytes which, upon stimulation, assemble an actin skeleton including stress fibres and focal contacts. The focal contacts resemble those of tissue culture cells. However, they lack paxillin, a conspicuous component of these organelles. We found that instead of paxillin, platelets contain a related protein with a molecular mass of 55 kDa that crossreacts with a monoclonal antibody against paxillin. The gene for the 55 kDa protein was cloned from a bone marrow cDNA library and turned out to be identical to a recently discovered gene encoding hic-5. Like paxillin, hic-5 is a cytoskeletal protein containing four carboxy-terminal LIM domains and LD motifs in the amino-terminal half. The LIM domains of both hic-5 and paxillin are capable of targetting green fluorescent protein to focal contacts. In addition, GST-hic-5 precipitates the focal adhesion kinase pp125(FAK) and talin from platelet extracts. Only trace amounts of hic-5 occur in DAMI cells, a megakaryocytic cell line, and in megakaryocytes cultured from CD34+ cells obtained from umbilical cord blood. However, RT-polymerase chain reactions performed with RNA obtained from platelets gave a positive result when primers specific for hic-5 were used, but were negative with paxillin-specific primers, indicating that a switch from paxillin expression to hic-5 expression must occur late in the maturation of megakaryocytes into platelets.

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