Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

Defects in TRPM7 channel function deregulate thrombopoiesis through altered cellular Mg2+ homeostasis and cytoskeletal architecture

  • Simon Stritt,
  • Paquita Nurden,
  • Remi Favier,
  • Marie Favier,
  • Silvia Ferioli,
  • Sanjeev K. Gotru,
  • Judith M M. van Eeuwijk,
  • Harald Schulze,
  • Alan T. Nurden,
  • Michele P. Lambert,
  • Ernest Turro,
  • Stephanie Burger-Stritt,
  • Masayuki Matsushita,
  • Lorenz Mittermeier,
  • Paola Ballerini,
  • Susanna Zierler,
  • Michael A. Laffan,
  • Vladimir Chubanov,
  • Thomas Gudermann,
  • Bernhard Nieswandt,
  • Attila Braun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11097
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Although Mg2+is vital for platelet activation and aggregation, its regulation in these cells is still largely unknown. Here, the authors show that TRPM7, a cation channel and a protein kinase, regulates thrombopoiesis and platelet size by affecting the cytoskeleton of these cells in mice and humans.