Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Thin-layer chromatography of polyphosphoinositides from platelet extracts: interference by an unknown phospholipid

Journal Article · · Thromb. Res.; (United States)
Different ratios of radioactive polyphosphoinositides in platelets pulse-labelled with 32p-orthophosphate have been reported by various laboratories. We studied whether these differences originate from differences in methodology. Extracts of 32p-Pi labelled human platelets were prepared at various times after gel-filtration and phosphatidylinositol (PI)-, mono (PIP)- and bisphosphate (PIP2) were separated by thin-layer chromatography using four different solvent systems. The 32p-levels in PIP and PIP2 remained constant during one hour after gel-filtration, whereas 32p-PI increased continuously and more than doubled within the first h. In two of the systems PIP co-chromatographed with a radioactive compound which separated well from PIP in the two other systems. This unknown compound was also labelled with 3H-glycerol, 3H-inositol and 3H-arachidonic acid, but it was metabolically and functionally different from the polyphosphoinositides. Both the co-chromatography of this unknown phospholipid and the increase in 32p-PI in gel-filtered platelets can explain the difference in 32p-labelling in phosphoinositides reported in the literature.
Research Organization:
Univ. of Bergen, Norway
OSTI ID:
6011324
Journal Information:
Thromb. Res.; (United States), Journal Name: Thromb. Res.; (United States) Vol. 3; ISSN THBRA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English