Platelet biology and functions: new concepts and clinical perspectives

PEJ van der Meijden, JWM Heemskerk - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2019 - nature.com
Platelets—blood cells continuously produced from megakaryocytes mainly in the bone
marrow—are implicated not only in haemostasis and arterial thrombosis, but also in other …

Platelet GPVI (glycoprotein VI) and thrombotic complications in the venous system

G Perrella, M Nagy, SP Watson… - … , and vascular biology, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
The immunoglobulin receptor GPVI (glycoprotein VI) is selectively expressed on
megakaryocytes and platelets and is currently recognized as a receptor for not only collagen …

SEdb 2.0: a comprehensive super-enhancer database of human and mouse

Y Wang, C Song, J Zhao, Y Zhang, X Zhao… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Super-enhancers (SEs) are cell-specific DNA cis-regulatory elements that can supervise the
transcriptional regulation processes of downstream genes. SEdb 2.0 (http://www. licpathway …

Diagnostic high-throughput sequencing of 2396 patients with bleeding, thrombotic, and platelet disorders

K Downes, K Megy, D Duarte, M Vries… - Blood, The Journal …, 2019 - ashpublications.org
A targeted high-throughput sequencing (HTS) panel test for clinical diagnostics requires
careful consideration of the inclusion of appropriate diagnostic-grade genes, the ability to …

A genome-wide association study of blood cell morphology identifies cellular proteins implicated in disease aetiology

P Akbari, D Vuckovic, L Stefanucci, T Jiang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Blood cells contain functionally important intracellular structures, such as granules, critical to
immunity and thrombosis. Quantitative variation in these structures has not been subjected …

Assessment of a complete and classified platelet proteome from genome-wide transcripts of human platelets and megakaryocytes covering platelet functions

J Huang, F Swieringa, FA Solari, I Provenzale… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Novel platelet and megakaryocyte transcriptome analysis allows prediction of the full or
theoretical proteome of a representative human platelet. Here, we integrated the established …

Promoter capture Hi-C: high-resolution, genome-wide profiling of promoter interactions

S Schoenfelder, BM Javierre… - Journal of …, 2018 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The three-dimensional organization of the genome is linked to its function. For example,
regulatory elements such as transcriptional enhancers control the spatio-temporal …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic regulation of plasma von Willebrand factor levels in health and disease

LL Swystun, D Lillicrap - Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2018 - Elsevier
Plasma levels of the multimeric glycoprotein von Willebrand factor (VWF) constitute a
complex quantitative trait with a continuous distribution and wide range in the normal …

Detecting chromosomal interactions in Capture Hi-C data with CHiCAGO and companion tools

P Freire-Pritchett, H Ray-Jones, M Della Rosa… - Nature protocols, 2021 - nature.com
Capture Hi-C is widely used to obtain high-resolution profiles of chromosomal interactions
involving, at least on one end, regions of interest such as gene promoters. Signal detection …

Platelet metabolic flexibility: a matter of substrate and location

S Ravera, MG Signorello, I Panfoli - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Platelets are cellular elements that are physiologically involved in hemostasis, inflammation,
thrombotic events, and various human diseases. There is a link between the activation of …