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Received 14 May 2014 | Accepted 13 Jul 2014 | Published 2 Sep 2014

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Loss of PIKfyve in platelets causes a lysosomal disease leading to inammation and thrombosis in mice

Sang H. Min1, Aae Suzuki1, Timothy J. Stalker1, Liang Zhao1, Yuhuan Wang2, Chris McKennan3, Matthew J. Riese1, Jessica F. Guzman1, Suhong Zhang4, Lurong Lian1, Rohan Joshi1, Ronghua Meng5, Steven H. Seeholzer3,John K. Choi6, Gary Koretzky1, Michael S. Marks5 & Charles S. Abrams1

PIKfyve is essential for the synthesis of phosphatidylinositol-3,5-bisphosphate [PtdIns(3,5)P2] and for the regulation of endolysosomal membrane dynamics in mammals.

PtdIns(3,5)P2 deciency causes neurodegeneration in mice and humans, but the role of PtdIns(3,5)P2 in non-neural tissues is poorly understood. Here we show that platelet-specic ablation of PIKfyve in mice leads to accelerated arterial thrombosis, and, unexpectedly, also to inappropriate inammatory responses characterized by macrophage accumulation in multiple tissues. These multiorgan defects are attenuated by platelet depletion in vivo, conrming that they reect a platelet-specic process. PIKfyve ablation in platelets induces defective maturation and excessive storage of lysosomal enzymes that are released upon platelet activation. Impairing lysosome secretion from PIKfyve-null platelets in vivo markedly attenuates the multiorgan defects, suggesting that platelet lysosome secretion contributes to pathogenesis. Our ndings identify PIKfyve as an essential regulator for platelet lysosome homeostasis, and demonstrate the contributions of platelet lysosomes to inammation, arterial thrombosis and macrophage biology.

1 Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. 2 Division of Hematology, The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. 3 Proteomics Core, The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. 4 Department of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. 5 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.

6 Department of Pathology, St Jude Childrens Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, USA. Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to C.S.A. (email: mailto:[email protected]

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Phosphoinositides are minor components of membrane phospholipids, yet they are essential for the regulation of diverse cellular processes, including signal transduction,

cytoskeletal control and membrane trafcking1. Phosphoinositide metabolism is tightly modulated by specic lipid kinases and phosphatases. Altering phosphoinositide turnover by dys-regulating these enzymes can lead to a variety of human diseases2.

PtdIns(3,5)P2 is a phosphoinositide of low abundance that is synthesized from PtdIns(3)P on the endosomal compartments in mammalian cells by the lipid kinase PIKfyve (also known as FAB1)3. PIKfyve forms a protein complex with other regulatory proteins, such as the PtdIns(3,5)P2 5-phosphatase Fig4 (also known as SAC3)4,5 and the docking protein Vac14 (also known as ArPIKfyve)6,7. The PIKfyve complex and its product PtdIns(3,5)P2 are essential regulators of membrane homeostasis, and of vesicle trafcking and cargo transport along the endosomallysosomal pathway8,9.

Recently, physiological functions of PtdIns(3,5)P2 have been elucidated using genetically engineered mice that lack different components of the PIKfyve complex10. PIKfyve-null mice are embryonically lethal11, but mice expressing residual PIKfyve activity are viable and develop defects within multiple organs, such as in the nervous, cardiopulmonary and hematopoietic systems12. Similarly, Fig4-null mice or Vac14-null mice develop several defects, including neurodegeneration, hypopigmentation and early lethality13,14. Notably, homozygous Fig4 mutations were also identied in patients who have the neurodegenerative diseases CharcotMarieTooth syndrome 4J and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis14,15, demonstrating a role for PtdIns(3,5)P2 in neural development. Although studies showed that PtdIns(3,5)P2 deciency causes defects in multiple cellular pathways including those required for endolysosomal trafcking in yeast and mammalian cell cultures, the physiological consequences of PtdIns(3,5)P2 in non-neural cells, such as those of the hematopoietic system, are not well understood.

Platelets are hematopoietic cells that are crucial for haemostatic plug formation in response to vascular injury. This process has been shown to require a series of key platelet activation events that are tightly regulated by several phosphoinositides16. However, the regulatory role of PtdIns(3,5)P2 in platelets remains unknown. Platelets are anucleated, but they store numerous biologically active substances in their secretory organelles, which include alpha granules, dense granules and lysosomes17,18. Platelet granules are generated in megakaryocytes from the endosomallysosomal system1922 by, as yet, poorly understood mechanisms.

In this study, we investigated whether PIKfyve has an essential role in platelets and in megakaryocytes using mice lacking PIKfyve specically in these cell types. Given the role of PIKfyve-mediated PtdIns(3,5)P2 production in the regulation of the endosomallysosomal pathway, we hypothesized that PIKfyve was essential for the biogenesis and function of platelet granules. We show that PIKfyve is critical for proper lysosomal home-ostasis in platelets, but it is not necessary for the biogenesis of alpha granules or dense granules. Remarkably, PIKfyve-null platelets are defective in the maturation, storage and release of lysosomal enzymes. Unexpectedly, these platelet lysosomal defects induce aberrant inammatory responses in macrophages that impair the development, body mass, fertility and survival of mice.

ResultsLoss of PIKfyve in platelets causes multiorgan defects. To investigate the role of PIKfyve in platelets and in megakaryocytes, we generated mice lacking PIKfyve kinase activity specically in

these cell types. The PIKfyve gene was conditionally targeted with loxP sites anking the exons corresponding to the kinase activation loop to generate oxed alleles of PIKfyve (PIKfyve, Fig. 1a). Mice expressing PIKfyve were crossed with transgenic mice expressing the Cre recombinase that is controlled by the platelet-factor-4 promoter (Pf4-Cre), which restricts the expression of Cre recombinase exclusively within megakaryocytes and their derived platelets23.

PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice developed several morphological abnormalities relative to their littermate PIKfyve/ mice,

PIKfyve/ mice and PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice. At about 3 weeks of age, PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice exhibited mild growth delay and body hair loss (Supplementary Fig. 1a). Over time, they gradually developed coarse facial features, abdominal distention, a generalized increase in the bulk of their soft tissues and body weight gain (Fig. 1b,c). Despite this weight gain, body composition analysis by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry showed that PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice had reduced body fat, but increased lean body mass, as compared with their littermate controls (Fig. 1d). In addition, they also had decreased bone mineral density (Supplementary Fig. 1b). As PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice aged, they remained infertile (Supplementary Fig. 1c) and their general body functions deteriorated. The vast majority died before 28 weeks of age (Fig. 1e).

PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice accumulate vacuolated macrophages. To elucidate the cause of multiorgan defects in PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice, histological and immunohistochemical analyses were performed in mice of 328 weeks of age. Unlike their control littermates, PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice exhibited massive organomegaly (Supplementary Fig. 2a). This phenotype reected progressive tissue inltration by engorged cells with multiple cytoplasmic vacuoles that had a foamy appearance (Fig. 2a and Supplementary Fig. 2b, arrowheads). Although the vacuoles of these cells did not stain with classical dyes for proteins or lipids, their cytoplasm strongly stained with Alcian blue and periodic acid Schiff, suggesting an excessive storage of acidic polysaccharides in the vacuolated cells (Fig. 2b and Supplementary Fig. 3a). In their livers and lungs, the vacuolated cells accumulated in a perivascular distribution and displaced the normal tissue (Fig. 2a), suggesting that the vacuolated cells originated from the blood or vasculature. By immunohistochemical analysis, the vacuolated cells stained with the macrophage-specic marker F4/80 (Fig. 2c), but not with the markers of other cell lineages, including GPIb (a megakaryocyte-specic marker). The F4/80-positive vacuolated macrophages in the livers of PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice were approximately three- to fourfold larger than the F4/80-positive macrophages in the livers of the control mice (Fig. 2d). In addition, tissues inltrated with the vacuolated macrophages were often associated with mononuclear cell inltrates that stained with the lymphocyte marker CD45R (Supplementary Fig. 3b), suggesting a local inammatory response. These results demonstrate that the loss of PIKfyve in platelets causes the invasion of normal tissues with inammatory vacuolated macrophages.

PIKfyve-null platelets induce macrophage pathology. Cells from PtdIns(3,5)P2-decient organisms have been shown to form large cytoplasmic vacuoles9,10. However, because our genetic approach was designed to only ablate PtdIns(3,5)P2 synthesis in platelets and in megakaryocytes, we did not expect to see the robust cytoplasmic vacuolation in the macrophages of PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice. Therefore, we further addressed whether these unexpected macrophage abnormalities resulted from aberrant PIKfyve disruption in macrophages, or by nonautonomous effects

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of PIKfyve disruption in platelets. Immunoblotting analysis showed that PIKfyve protein was absent in platelets, but present in the liver, spleen and lungs of PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice. PIKfyve protein was also present in all tissues of the control mice (Fig. 3a and Supplementary Fig. 4a). These results strongly suggest that the PIKfyve protein was ablated only in the megakaryocyte lineage of PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice.

Although Pf4-Cre expression has been shown to be restricted to megakaryocytes and platelets2326, we next re-evaluated Pf4-Cre expression in PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice by crossing them to mice expressing a Cre-dependent LacZ reporter (Rosa26-LacZ)27. Tissue staining of PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre/Rosa26-Lacz mice with X-gal showed b-galactosidase expression only in megakaryocytes and in platelets (Fig. 3b and Supplementary Fig. 4b, arrows), but not in the vacuolated macrophages or in the other cells (Fig. 3b, arrowheads). This genetic evidence excludes the possibility that Pf4-Cre induced PIKfyve ablation in the macrophages of PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice. Together, these results demonstrate that the macrophage inltration and enlargement observed in PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice are indirectly induced by PIKfyve ablation in megakaryocytes and/or in platelets.

To further address whether PIKfyve-null platelets contribute to the robust macrophage response leading to the multiorgan failure in PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice, we studied the effects of platelet depletion using monoclonal GP1ba antibodies28,29. Platelet depletion was initiated at 810 weeks of age. At that point, the PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice had already developed body hair loss, some weight gain and tissue inltration of their vacuolated macrophages. Control mice and PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice were either untreated or administered GP1ba antibodies twice weekly

via intraperitoneal injections for 6 weeks. As reported previously, the injection of GP1ba antibodies efciently induced acute thrombocytopenia in both sets of mice28,29. However, repetitive injections of GP1ba antibodies were less effective at inducing stable thrombocytopenia over time likely because of the reactive thrombocytopoiesis associated with complete platelet depletion with antiplatelet antibodies30. Nevertheless, the PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice that were treated with GP1ba antibodies showed a signicant delay in weight gain and attenuated hair loss as compared with the untreated PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice (Fig. 3c,d). Together, our ndings demonstrate that platelets are the primary contributors in the development of the inammatory macrophage response and multiorgan defects in PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice.

We also investigated whether the macrophage response in PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice could be rescued or transferred by hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation. Lethally irradiated wild-type mice of 812 weeks of age were reconstituted with a mixture of donor cells that were half derived from PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre HSCs and half derived from wild-type HSCs. Thirty-ve weeks later, a necropsy showed that inltration of vacuolated macrophages was readily apparent in the liver, lung, colon and bone marrow of the irradiated wild-type recipient mice (Supplementary Fig. 5b,e, arrowheads). Conversely, lethally irradiated PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice of 812 weeks of age were reconstituted exclusively with wild-type donor HSCs. At about 8 weeks after transplantation, the characteristic hair loss and weight gain were signicantly attenuated. A necropsy at 35 weeks after transplantation conrmed that the inltration of the vacuolated macrophages in multiple tissues was completely reversed (Supplementary Fig. 5c,f). Together, these results further

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Figure 1 | Platelet-specic ablation of PIKfyve causes multiorgan abnormalities in mice. (a) Schematic representation of genetic targeting of PIKfyve. The target exons 37 and 38 (red bars) were targeted with lox P recombination sites (yellow arrows) to generate PIKfyve-oxed alleles (PIKfyve).

Mice expressing PIKfyve were then crossed with Pf4-Cre mice to induce homologous recombination of the PIKfyve (PIKfyve Post-Cre). (b) General appearance of control and PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre littermates at 24 weeks of age. Note the characteristic coarse facial features, body hair loss and severely distended body morphology. (c) Body weight of control mice and PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice. The average numbers of mice were eight per time point and per group. (d) Percent of total body fat in the control (n 3) and PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre (n 3) mice at 1224 weeks of age. (e) Survival curves of female

and male control (n 40) and PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre (n 40) mice. *Po0.05, **Po0.01, ***Po0.001. All error bars indicate means.d. Students t-test.

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Figure 2 | Inammatory vacuolated macrophages inltrate multiple tissues in the PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice. (a) Representative histological sections of the lungs and livers stained with haematoxylin and eosin (H&E) from control mice and PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice. Scale bar, 100 mm. Insets show increased magnication of boxed areas in a. Scale bar, 20 mm. Arrowheads indicate the vacuolated cells. (b) Lung sections stained with Alcian blue. Scale bar, 100 mm. Inset shows high magnication of the boxed area. (c) Liver structures of control mice and PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice were stained for macrophages with anti-F4/80 by immunohistochemistry. Scale bar, 100 mm. Insets in the upper right corner of each image show higher magnication images of boxed areas. Scale bar, 20 mm. (d) Cell diameters of F4/80 cells in the livers of control mice (n 5) and PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice (n 5). ***Po0.001.

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demonstrate that the phenotype of PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice can be either rescued or transferred by hematopoietic progenitor cells.

Megakaryopoiesis and thrombopoiesis do not require PIKfyve. We next studied the effects of PIKfyve ablation in megakaryocytes of PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice. Fibroblasts and neurons of PtdIns(3,5)P2-decient organisms typically develop large vacuoles9,10. Histological analysis by light microscopy of bone marrow sections showed that PIKfyve-null megakaryocytes were morphologically indistinguishable from control megakaryocytes (Supplementary Fig. 6a). However, analysis by transmission electron microscopy of cultured megakaryocytes derived from PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre bone marrow revealed multiple enlarged cytoplasmic vacuoles (Fig. 4a). Despite this abnormality, ow cytometric analysis showed no signicant differences in the number of megakaryocytes in the bone marrow of control or PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice (Fig. 4b). Moreover, PIKfyve-null

megakaryocytes had normal ploidy, implying that the loss of PIKfyve did not affect megakaryocyte maturation (Fig. 4c). Finally, counts of platelets and leukocytes as well as haemoglobin level were similar between control and PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice (Fig. 4df). Thus, PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice normally develop megakaryocytes in vivo and produce normal numbers of platelets, and they also normally develop other blood cells.

PIKfyve regulates trafcking of platelet lysosomal cargoes. We next investigated the effects of PIKfyve ablation in the morphology and functions of platelets in PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice. Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that in contrast to the PIKfyve-null megakaryocytes derived from the bone marrow, the ultrastructure of PIKfyve-null platelets was indistinguishable from that of control platelets (Supplementary Fig. 6b). To test whether the loss of PIKfyve impacted granule content, we assessed the abundance of representative components

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by immunoblotting. PIKfyve-null platelets expressed normal levels of the alpha granule components von Willebrand factor and platelet factor 4 (Supplementary Fig. 6c,d). In contrast, PIKfyve-null platelets exhibited increased levels of the lysosomal protein LAMP-1 (lysosomal-associated membrane protein 1; Fig. 5a) and increased activity of the lysosomal enzyme b-hexosaminidase (Fig. 5b). These results suggest that PIKfyve-null platelets store normal levels of alpha granule components, but store excessive levels of lysosomal components.

To test whether PIKfyve regulates granule secretion, we stimulated platelets ex vivo and monitored granule release by surface expression of granule markers or release of mediators into the medium. Following thrombin stimulation, PIKfyve-null platelets translocated the a-granule protein P-selectin to their cell surface as efciently as control platelets (Supplementary Fig. 7a). Likewise, ATP secretion from dense granules was similar in control and PIKfyve-null platelets (Supplementary Fig. 7b). However, the releasates from PIKfyve-null platelets showed increased activity of the lysosomal enzyme, b-hexosaminidase (Fig. 5c). Further analysis showed that the PIKfyve-null platelets released a normal percentage of their total cellular b-hexosaminidase following agonist stimulation (Supplementary Fig. 7c). These data indicate that PIKfyve-null platelets release higher levels of b-hexosaminidase than the control platelets because they contain excessive amounts of this lysosomal enzyme, and not because they secrete it more efciently. Consistent with this nding, b-hexosaminidase activity was found to also be elevated in the plasma of PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice (Fig. 5c). Together, these ndings demonstrate that PIKfyve-null platelets store and release excessive levels of lysosomal cargo proteins.

To more comprehensively analyse how the loss of PIKfyve affects the contents secreted upon platelet activation, a quantitative proteomics analysis was performed. By tandem liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), we identied the proteins released from the control platelets and the PIKfyve-null platelets following thrombin stimulation. We then used the spectral counting of the identied peptides to quantitatively compare the proteins released from the control platelets and the PIKfyve-null platelets. Using a cutoff of 2.0-fold as a signicant difference between them, we identied 17 proteins that were increased and 38 proteins that were decreased in the releasates of PIKfyve-null platelets relative to wild-type platelets (Supplementary Tables 1 and 2). Among those proteins that were more abundant in the PIKfyve-null platelet releasates, several lysosomal enzymes stood out including cathepsin D, cathepsin B and maltase (Supplementary Table 1). Remarkably, levels of the cathepsin D were 20-fold higher in PIKfyve-null platelet releasates than in control releasates (Supplementary Table 1). Further analysis of the sequence coverage and MS spectra of the tryptic peptides for cathepsin D demonstrated that the releasates of PIKfyve-null platelets contained predominantly the procathepsin Dthe immature and inactive proenzyme form of cathepsin Dbut undetectable levels of mature cathepsin D (Supplementary Fig. 8ac). To further validate these ndings, we analysed the expression of cathepsin D in platelet lysates by immunoblotting. Consistent with the proteomics data, both cathepsin D and procathepsin D were undedetectable in the lysates of wild-type platelets, and procathepsin D was highly elevated in PIKfyve-null platelets (Fig. 5d). These results suggest that cathepsin D expression is upregulated in PIKfyve-null platelets, but that the intracellular maturation of procathepsin D is defective in PIKfyve-null platelets. Consequently, cathepsin D activity was negligible in both the lysates and releasates of both wild-type and the PIKfyve-null platelets (Supplementary Fig. 7d). Together, these data demonstrate that PIKfyve ablation in platelets results in a defective lysosomal pathway reected

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Pf4-Cre mice. (a) The levels of PIKfyve protein were determined in the platelets and liver of the indicated mice by immunoblotting. Note the absence of the PIKfyve protein in the platelets, but its presence in the liver of PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice (n 3). Tissues from the wild-type mice, the

PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice and the PIKfyve/ mice were used as positive controls. b-Actin was used as a loading control. (b) X-gal staining of the lung tissues from PIKfyve/ Rosa26-LacZ mice and PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre

Rosa26-LacZ mice. Scale bar, 20 mm. The arrow indicates the platelet clumps in the lung vessels expressing LacZ (blue stain). Arrowheads indicate the vacuolated macrophages that did not stain blue.(c) Representative general morphology of 15-week-old control mice and PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice after 6 weeks of either no intervention (untreated) or biweekly injections of anti-GP1ba antibodies ( GP1ba Ab).

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Figure 4 | PIKfyve is not necessary for the development of megakaryocytes nor for platelet production. (a) Electron micrographs of megakaryocytes grown in culture in the presence of thrombopoietin for 7 days. Note multiple enlarged vacuoles in the cytoplasm of PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice as compared with the control mice. Scale bar, 10 mm. (b) CD41 megakaryocyte counts of control PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice (n 3 for each group).

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by abnormal storage, maturation and release of lysosomal enzymes.

Loss of PIKfyve in platelets accelerates arterial thrombosis. Platelets have long been known to contain primary lysosomes and release their lysosomal enzymes in response to stimuli31,32, but the physiologic role of platelet lysosome secretion has not been clearly delineated. Thus, we tested whether the lysosomal abnormalities observed in PIKfyve-null platelets correlated with any functional abnormalities. Washed platelets from control or PIKfyve/ Pf4-cre mice formed aggregates to a similar degree in response to different agonists (Supplementary Fig. 6e), suggesting that activation of the dominant platelet integrin, aIIbb3, is intact in the PIKfyve-null platelets. In addition, Akt phosphorylation was normally induced upon stimulation (Fig. 5f), suggesting that the intracellular signalling pathway in PIKfyve-null platelets is also preserved. To determine the effect of PIKfyve ablation in platelets during thrombosis in vivo, the carotid arteries of mice were analysed for occlusive thrombus formation in response to a chemical injury with ferric chloride. At 1216 weeks of age, PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice formed occluding thrombi signicantly faster than their control littermates (3.81.6 min versus6.11.2 min, Fig. 5e). Since PIKfyve-null platelets showed normal aggregation ex vivo, we speculated that the excessive secretion of the platelet lysosomal contents from PIKfyve-null platelets could contribute to endothelial damage and systemic inammation leading to accelerated thrombus formation. Consistent with this possibility, plasma levels of vWF, a marker of endothelial damage and systemic inammation33, were signicantly elevated in the plasma of PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice when measured by immunoblotting (Fig. 5g) or enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA; Fig. 5h). Together, these results suggest that excessive lysosomal secretion from PIKfyve-null platelets is associated with endothelial damage and systemic inammation, perhaps underlying excessive thrombosis in PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice.

Impaired release of platelet lysosomes reverts the pathology. If the pathological macrophage inammatory response in PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice reects the excessive stimulus-induced secretion of lysosomal enzymes, we hypothesized that attenuating the release of platelet lysosomes would comparably attenuate the inammatory responses. To test this hypothesis, PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice were crossed with pallid mice, a model of HermanskyPudlak syndrome type 9 (ref. 34). Pallid mice lack an essential subunit of BLOC-1, a complex required for the biogenesis of lysosome-related organelles such as pigment cell melanosomes and platelet dense granules35,36. Importantly, stimulus-dependent secretion of lysosomal contents is impaired (but not ablated) in platelets from pallid mice37. In contrast to PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice that developed persistent dorsal alopecia and weight gain, PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre/pallid mice maintained hair growth until death and exhibited attenuated weight gain (Fig. 6a,b; note that because the pallid mutation also impairs melanosome biogenesis, pallid mice exhibit hypopigmented fur). As expected, platelet and plasma levels of b-hexosaminidase were lower in PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre/pallid mice than in PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice (Fig. 6c,d). Together, these data suggest that the release of platelet lysosomes contributes to the pathogenesis of multiorgan defects in PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice.

DiscussionIn this study, we show that PIKfyve kinase activity is critical in limiting the pathological inammatory and thrombotic functions of platelet lysosomes. Our data indicate that PIKfyve kinase activity in platelets is essential for the normal maturation of cathepsin D and for the proper storage and release of lysosomal enzymes. Unexpectedly, dysregulated lysosomal homeostasis and enhanced lysosomal release from PIKfyve-null platelets drive an aberrant inammatory response in macrophages. This leads to chronic inammation and arterial thrombosis that affect the development, body mass, fertility and survival of mice.

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Figure 5 | PIKfyve is critical for the maturation, storage and release of lysosomal enzymes in platelets. (a) Immunoblot of platelet lysates from the control mice and PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice showing the expression of EEA-1 and LAMP-1. b-Actin was used as the loading control. (b) Quantication of protein bands shown in a (n 3 for each group). (c) b-hexosaminidase activity in the platelet lysates, platelet relesates, and plasma of control mice (n=3)

and PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice (n 3). (d) Immunoblot of platelet lysates from control mice and PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice showing the expression of

Procathepsin D. b-actin was used as the loading control. (e) Time to occlusion of carotid arteries upon vascular injury with 7.5% of FeCl3 in the control mice (n 9) and the PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice (n 8). (f) Immunoblot of platelet lysates from control platelets and PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre platelets showing the

Akt phosphorylation in resting condition or stimulated with 1 U ml 1 of thrombin for 10 min. (g) SDS agarose electrophoresis showing the multimer pattern of plasma vWF from the control mice (n 3) and the PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre (n 3) mice. (h) Plasma levels of vWF from the control mice (n 3) and the

PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre (n 3) mice were quantied by ELISA. *Po0.05. All error bars indicate means.d. Students t-test.

Our study shows that PIKfyve-null platelets excessively accumulate lysosomal components, which include lysosomal membrane proteins as well as lysosomal enzymes such as b-hexosaminidase and procathepsin D. Procathepsin D is targeted from the trans-Golgi network (TGN) to endosomes primarily via the mannose-6-phosphate receptor (M6PR) pathway and is further processed to active cathepsin D in acidic lysosomes38. The M6PR must then recycle to the TGN for another round of transport. The excessive accumulation and release of procathepsin D in PIKfyve-null platelets suggests that

PIKfyve is critical for procathepsin D trafcking from the TGN to endosomes. This conclusion is consistent with a published study showing that PtdIns(3,5)P2 deciency leads to the defective retrograde trafcking of M6PR from endosomes to the TGN39, which would ultimately exhaust the M6PR from the TGN and result in default secretion of procathepsin D. Similarly, the broblasts of Vac14-null mice develop defective steady-state localization of M6PR, and they also accumulate the immature forms of cathepsin D13. Since PtdIns(3,5)P2 is also required for acidication of the lysosome-like vacuole in yeast9 and because

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Figure 6 | Impaired secretion of platelet lysosomes attenuates the phenotypes of PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice. (a) General appearance of PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice and PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre/pallid mice on C57BL/6 background at 17 weeks of age. In the presence of the pallid mutation, the hair loss and weight gain are attenuated in the PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre/pallid mice. Note that the pallid mice have an underlying defect in melanosome biogenesis causing hypopigmented fur. (b) Body weight of the PIKfyve/

Pf4-Cre mice, and the sex-matched and age-matched PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre/ pallid mice. The average numbers of mice were ve per time point and per group. The dashed line indicates the mean ratio of body weight of the control mice. (c,d) Analysis of b-hexosaminidase activity in the platelet lysate (c) and plasma (d) of the PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice (n 3) and the

PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre/pallid (n 3) mice. *Po0.05, **Po0.01. All error bars

indicate means.d. Students t-test.

the low pH in lysosomes is essential for the proteolytic maturation of procathepsin D40, an abnormal lysosomal pH could also contribute to the defective processing of procathepsin D in the PIKfyve-null platelets. In addition, wild-type platelets contain and secrete only minor amounts of procathepsin D whereas PIKfyve-null platelets excessively store and release procathepsin D. This suggests that PtdIns(3,5)P2 deciency might additionally feed back on lysosomal enzyme biosynthesis, perhaps by activating the CLEAR (coordinated lysosomal expression and regulation) gene network41,42.

Interestingly, overexpression and secretion of procathepsin D have been found in several human cancers, including breast and lung carcinomas43. In these tumour cells, alterations of pathways that are M6PR dependent and independent have both been suggested44,45. In addition, excessive release of the lysosomal enzymes are also seen in the lysosomal storage disorders, Mucolipidosis II and Mucolipidosis III46. In these diseases, an inability to generate the M6P recognition signal on the lysosomal enzymes impairs their delivery from the TGN to the lysosome via the M6PR pathway resulting in the excessive release of lysosomal enzymes extracellularly47. Thus, the absence of PIKfyve in platelets results in a phenotype that is reminiscent of several human disorders with impaired trafcking from the TGN to the lysosome.

Similar to PIKfyve deciency, the deciency of the inositol phosphatase and PIKfyve chaperone protein called Fig4 results in

the reduced intracellular PtdIns(3,5)P2 concentrations. Notably, Fig4-decient mice develop enlarged endolysosomal vacuoles and excessive accumulation of lysosomal proteins, reminiscent of lysosomal storage diseases48. Likewise, mice lacking another PIKfyve-binding partner called Vac14 have decreased synthesis of PtdIns(3,5)P2 and develop excessive vacuolation of late endosomal and lysosomal compartments13. Together with our ndings, these studies further support that the depletion of PtdIns(3,5)P2 by impairing any components of the PIKfyve complex could lead to the features that are reminiscent of those found in lysosomal storage disorders.

It is notable that lysosomal storage diseases are frequently associated with inappropriate immune responses that result in chronic inammation. For example, tissue inltration of reactive macrophages can lead to visceral organomegaly in both Gaucher and Niemann-Pick diseases49,50. Likewise, microglial activation is frequently associated with the neuropathology in Mucopolysaccaridoses51. Similar to these ndings, we unexpectedly observed that the ablation of PIKfyve in platelets causes inammatory responses that are associated with robust macrophage defects, which lead to organomegaly in mice. Using several lines of evidence, we demonstrated that this macrophage phenotype is non-cell-autonomous, showing that PIKfyve-null platelets can induce aberrant responses in normal macrophages. Interestingly, this inammatory response has not been described in mice lacking Fig4 or Vac14. This could be explained because these mice do not survive long enough to fully develop the robust tissue accumulation of macrophages seen in PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice. However, a similar non-cell-autonomous phenomenon has also been observed in Fig4-null mice, which have a neurodegenerative disorder14. The genetic restoration of Fig4 exclusively in the neuronal cells of Fig4-null mice not only reverts the dysfunctions of neuronal cells, but it also reverts the dysfunctions of the adjacent oligodendrocytes including hypomyelination and maturation defects52. Together with our ndings, these studies indicate that the depletion of PtdIns(3,5)P2 in a single cell type may have indirect implications in other cell types. Furthermore, they also show that our ndings are consistent with the broad secondary defects shown in lysosomal storage disorders.

Megakaryocytes and platelets have long been known to possess lysosomes that contain different hydrolases including proteases and glycosidases31,53. Upon platelet activation in vivo, platelets release not only alpha granules and dense granules, but they also release their lysosomal contents54. The physiopathological role of platelet lysosome secretion is not well understood. However, it has been speculated that the release of platelet lysosomal enzymes may be required for the remodelling of extracellular matrix during wound healing55. In addition, the pathological release of lysosomal enzymes may also cause the local injury of the vascular wall leading to atherosclerosis and the focal thickening of arteries56. Thus, proper regulation of the platelet lysosomal secretion would be essential to maintain a normal response to wound healing, and also to avoid the inammatory and thrombotic defects that could result from the excessive platelet lysosomal secretion. Consistent with this concept, this study shows that the excessive storage and secretion of lysosomal enzymes from platelets lacking PIKfyve result in the accelerated arterial thrombosis and inammation observed in PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice. Thus, our studies further support that the proper regulation of platelet lysosomal storage and secretion have a crucial role in limiting the proinammatory and prothrombotic functions of platelets.

Our study demonstrates the novel nding that PIKfyve kinase activity is a critical regulator of the lysosomal pathway in mouse platelets. This work also provides evidence that in addition to the

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effects mediated by the release of platelets alpha and dense granules, secretion of platelet lysosomes may be a previously unrecognized initiator of vascular damage and inammatory responses. These ndings could have important implications and applications in the diagnosis and in the design of novel targets for clinical disorders mediated by platelets.

Methods

Animal models. All animals were maintained on standard chow and tap water under specic pathogen-free conditions. All animal procedures were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees at the University of Pennsylvania. Targeting of the PIKfyve gene was generated using C57BL6 mice (inGenious Targeting Laboratory). A bacterial articial chromosome derived from C57BL/6 (RPCI23) genomic DNA was used to construct the targeting vector. The targeting vector was designed to excise exons 37 and 38 of the mouse PIKfyve gene that encodes the activation loop of the kinase domain. The 7.55-kb long homology arm extended 50 to exon 37, and the 1.5-kb short homology arm extended 30 to exon 38.

A pGK-gb2 loxP/FRT neocassette was inserted on the 30 side of exon 38, and the single loxP site was inserted at the 50 side of exon 37. The resulting 10.6-kb fragment was subcloned into an B2.4-kb backbone vector (pSP72, Promega) containing an ampicillin selection cassette to generate a nal targeting construct of14.8 kb. C57BL/6 embryonic stem cells (ES) were electroporated with targeting vectors. Clones resistant to the G418 antibiotic were selected and screened by Southern blot and PCR to identify recombinant ES clones. The selected clones were microinjected into C57BL/6 blastocysts. Resulting chimeras with black coat colour were mated with wild-type C57BL/6 mice to generate PIKfyve F1 heterozygous offspring. F1 heterozygous mice were crossed with a FLP transgenic mouse to excise the neomycin cassette that was anked by FRT sites. The resulting F2 mosaic offspring were crossed with wild-type mice to generate F3 heterozygotes that were missing the neomycin cassette. F3 heterozygotes were crossed to generate mice carrying the PIKfyve-oxed allele (PIKfyve). PIKfyve/ mice were crossed with transgenic mice expressing Cre recombinase under the control of the platelet factor 4 promoter (Pf4-Cre) to induce tissue-restricted Cre recombination in the megakaryocyte lineage. For some experiments, PIKfyve/ mice were crossed with a B6;129S4-Gt(ROSA)26Sortm1Sor/J (Rosa26-LacZ) reporter strain and then with a Pf4-Cre transgenic mouse. For other experiments, PIKfyve/ mice were crossed with B6-Cg-Pldnpa/J (pallid) mice, and their offspring were paired with the Pf4-Cre transgenic mice to generate PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre/pallid mice. For all studies, both female and male mice were used. Sex-matched littermates were used as controls for all studies if not indicated otherwise.

PCR genotyping. Genomic DNA isolated from mouse tail biopsies was used to genotype mice by PCR. The recombinant ES cells were identied with 50-CCAGA GGCCACTTGTGTAGC-30 and A3: 50-CAGCCAGTGCTCGCATACAAAGG-30 primers. The insertion of neomycin cassette in F1 mice was identied with 50-CCA GAGGCCACTTGTGTAGC-30 and 50-GGATGAAGTGCCTTGTTATCTGCAG-30 primers. The 3rd LoxP integration was identied with 50-CCATTGCCTGGCTT AGAACAGAG-30 and 50-GAACTCTCCCGCGTAGTACAGC-30 primers. PCR-generated products were either 310 bp corresponding to the wild-type alleles or 370 bp corresponding to the targeted allele (LoxP integrated). Pf4-Cre transgene was identied with 50-CCCATACAGCACACCTTTTG-30 and 50-TGCACAGTCA

GCAGGTT-30 primers. Rosa26/LacZ transgene was identied with 50-AAAGTC GCTCTGAGTTGTTAT-30, 50-GCGAAGAGTTTGTCCTCAACC-30 and 50-GGA GCGGGAGAAATGGATATG-30.

Body composition analysis. Mice were anaesthesized with sodium pentobarbital (90 mg kg 1) and scanned by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry at the Mouse

Metabolism Core at the University of Pennsylvania.

Histochemistry and immunohistochemistry. Necropsies were performed on female and male control and PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice between 3 weeks and28 weeks of age. They included macroscopic observations, body and organ weight measurements, complete blood counts, serum chemistry analysis and microscopic examination of the brain, thymus, lymph nodes, heart, lung, small intestine, large intestine, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidney, ovaries, testis, skin, muscle, fat and bone marrow. Fresh postmortem tissues were xed overnight in 10% formalin, parafn-embedded and sectioned. Parafn sections were deparafnized with xylene and ethanol, and stained with haematoxylin/eosin, periodic acid Schiff and Alcian blue. For immunohistochemistry, parafn sections were deparafnized with xylene and ethanol, and antigen retrieved in 0.01 M citrate buffer by microwaving for 30 min. They were stained with the following primary antibodies: F4/80 (Serotec; 1:100), CD41 (BD Pharmingen; MWReg30; 1:50) and CD45R/B220 (BD Pharmingen; RA3-6B2; 1:500). Sections were counterstained with haematoxylin. For X-gal staining, frozen tissue sections were xed with 0.5% glutaraldehyde for 10 min, and stained overnight with the chromogenic substrate for b-galactosidase, X-gal (Cell Center, University of Pennsylvania). Sections were then counterstained with haematoxylin or haematoxylin/eosin as indicated.

Immunoblotting. Tissues were harvested and homogenized in RIPA buffer with a protease inhibitor cocktail (Roche). The protein concentrations were determined using the BCA Protein Assay (Pierce). Proteins were separated on SDSPAGE gradient gels (Invitrogen) and then transferred onto the polyvinylidene diuoride membrane (Invitrogen). The membrane was blotted with the indicated primary antibodies against: PIKfyve-N-terminal (Sigma-Aldrich; P0054; 1:400), LAMP-1 (Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank; 1:1,000), EEA-1 (Santa Cruz; 1:1,000), Cathepsin D (Calbiochem; 1:1,000), vWF (DAKO; 1:1,000), PF4 (Bethyl; 1:1,000), Akt (Cell Signaling Technology; 1:1,000), pAkt (Cell Signaling Technology; 1:1,000) and b-actin (Cell Signaling Technology; 1:1,000). This was followed by blotting with horseradish peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibodies and developing with enhanced chemiluminescence substrate (GE Healthcare). Full blots are shown in the Supplementary Figs 8 and 9.

Megakaryocyte and platelet preparation. Megakaryocytes were derived from the bone marrow by ushing mouse femurs and cultured in the presence of 1% thrombopoietin (TPO, R&D Systems) in IDMD supplemented with 10% FBS26. After 4 days, cultured megakaryocytes were isolated by sedimentation through a1.5%/3% BSA step gradient. To prepare washed platelets, blood was collected from the inferior vena cava of mice into 0.1 volume of acid citrate dextrose buffer. Platelet-rich plasma was separated by centrifugation at 200 g for 10 min and incubated with 1 mM prostaglandin E1 for 10 min at room temperature. Platelets were then isolated by centrifugation at 800 g for 10 min and resuspended in HEPES-Tyrode buffer pH 7.4.

Megakaryocyte number and ploidy analysis. To measure the numberof megakaryocytes in the bone marrow, isolated megakaryocytes from thebone marrow were stained with CD41 antibody conjugated with Alexa 488(BD Biosciences), and cells were counted on the FACS Calibur ow cytometer (BD Biosciences) discriminating size to subtract out platelets. To determine the megakaryocyte ploidy, cells were stained with propidium iodide (Sigma) and the relative DNA content was measured. FlowJo software was used to analyse all ow cytometry data.

P-selectin expression analysis. Platelets were diluted to a density of 5

106 cells ml 1, stimulated with thrombin at indicated concentrations and then incubated with a phycoerythrin-conjugated P-selectin antibody (BD Pharmingen).

Fluorescence values were analysed on a FACS Calibur ow cytometer (BD Biosciences).

Platelet aggregation and ATP secretion. Platelets were diluted to a density of 2.5 106 cells ml 1 in HEPES-Tyrode buffer pH 7.4. Platelet aggregation in

response to agonist stimulation was assessed by changes in light transmission detected by a dual-channel lumi-aggregometer (Chrono-Log) with stirring at 37 C. Platelet secretion of ATP was assessed concurrently by the luciferin/luciferase reaction after adding chrono-lume no. 395 (Chrono-Log) to the aggregometer cuvette.

Transmission electron microscopy. Megakaryocytes grown in culture were harvested on day 6 and xed in glutaraldehyde. Ultrathin sections were obtained and collected on hexagonal copper grids. Sections were stained with Reynolds lead citrate and examined using transmission electron microscopy at the Electron Microscopy Core Facility at the University of Pennsylvania.

Platelet depletion in vivo. To study the effects of platelet depletion in the control mice and the PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice, female and male mice at 810 weeks of age were administered with GPIba antibody (Emfret) at 2 mgg 1 twice weekly by intraperitoneal injections for a total of 6 weeks. Blood counts were monitored weekly by collecting blood from the retro-orbital sinus. Body weight was monitored twice weekly. Necropsies were performed at the completion of 6 weeks of antibody treatment.

Radiation bone marrow chimeras. Bone marrow cells were isolated from wild-type mice expressing either CD45.1 or CD45.2 congenic markers or from PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice expressing CD45.2 congenic markers. Bone marrow cells were depleted of T cells and red blood cells by using magnetic beads bound to antibodies against Ter119, CD3, CD4 and CD8. To study the phenotype rescue effect, PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre recipient mice expressing CD45.2 congenic markers were irradiated with 900 rads and administered by retro-orbital injection with 2 106

bone marrow cells from wild-type mice expressing CD45.1 markers. To study the phenotype transfer effect, wild-type recipient mice expressing CD45.1 markers were irradiated with 900 rads, and administered by retro-orbital injection with1 106 bone marrow cells from wild-type mice expressing thy 1.1 marker and

1 106 bone marrow cells from PIKfyve/ Pf4-Cre mice expressing CD45.2

markers. Transplanted mice were maintained in sterile water with sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim for 3 weeks. Mice were killed and analysed for engraftment and histology analyses at about 3335 weeks after transplantation.

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b-Hexosaminidase and cathepsin D activity assays. The b-hexosaminidase activity,was determined using a chromogenic substrate57. Mouse platelets or plasma were mixed with 10 mM substrate p-nitrophenyl-N-acetyl-b-D-

glucosaminide (Sigma) in citrate-phosphate buffer pH 4.5. Platelet extracts were incubated for 16 h at 37 C and plasma was incubated for 1 h at 37 C. The enzymatic reaction was stopped by the addition of 0.5 M NaOH. The absorbance of released p-nitrophenolate was read at 405 nm in an ELISA plate reader. Cathepsin D activity was determined using a uorogenic substrate58. The reaction mixture contained 10 ml of platelet lysate solution, 10 ml of 200 mM of substrate Bz-Arg-Gly-

Phe-Phe-Pro-4MeObNA (Calbiochem) and 80 ml of 50 mM sodium acetate buffer pH 4.0. Reaction mixtures were incubated for 30 min at 37 C. The enzymatic reaction was stopped by adding 5% trichloroacetic acid. The release of 2-naphthylamine was measured in a spectrouorometer at emission wavelength of 410 nm and excitation wavelength of 335 nm.

FeCl3-induced carotid artery thrombosis assay. Mice were anaesthetized using sodium pentobarbital (90 mg kg 1). A midline incision was made in the neck, and the carotid artery was exposed and dissected away from surrounding tissue. The artery was placed on a Doppler ow probe (Transonic Systems, Ithaca, NY) to monitor blood ow through the vessel. After a baseline ow measurement was recorded, vascular injury was initiated by placing a 1 mm2 piece of lter paper saturated with 7.5% FeCl3 (Sigma) on the surface of the artery for 2 min. The lter paper was then removed and the artery rinsed with saline, followed by the continuous recording of blood ow in the vessel for 20 min post injury. The time to vessel occlusion was recorded.

Plasma vWF analysis. For analysis of plasma vWF multimer distribution, mouse plasma (10 ml) was denatured at 60 C for 20 min with 10 ml of sample buffer(70 mM Tris, pH 6.8, 2.4% SDS, 0.67 M urea, 4 mM EDTA, 10% glycerol, 0.01% bromophenol blue). Proteins were fractionated on 1% agarose gel on ice and transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane. The membrane was blotted with vWF IgG antibody (Dako; 1:5,000) to detect the vWF multimers. For quantication analysis of plasma vWF antigen, we performed ELISA. A microtitre plate coated with rabbit anti-vWF IgG (Dako; 1:2,000) was incubated with diluted mouse plasma for 1 h at room temperature. After washing with phosphate-buffered saline, bound vWF was determined by peroxidase-conjugated rabbit anti-vWF IgG (Dako; 1:2,000). A pre-mixed TMB (3,30,5,50-tetramethylbenzidine) solution was used for colour development. The absorbance at 450 nm was determined by an ELISA plate reader.

Mass spectrometry analysis. To prepare platelet releasates for proteomics analysis, washed platelets (5 108 cells ml 1) were stimulated with 1 U ml 1

thrombin for 10 min at 37 C. Activated platelets were centrifuged at 13,000 g for 10 min at 4 C and the supernates were isolated from the pellets. The concentrations of proteins from the platelet supernates were measured using the BCA protein assay (Pierce). Proteins (40 mg) were digested with trypsin in solution. Tryptic digests were analysed by LC-MS/MS on a hybrid LTQ-Orbitrap Elite mass spectrometer (Thermosher Scientic, San Jose, CA) coupled with a nano LC Ultra (Eksigent). Peptides were separated by reverse phase (RP)-HPLC on a nanocapillary column, 75 mm id 15 cm Reprosil-pur 3 mM (Dr Maisch, Germany) in a

Nanoex chip system (Eksigent). Mobile phase A consisted of 1% methanol (Fisher)/0.1% formic acid (Thermo) and mobile phase B of 1% methanol/0.1% formic acid/80% acetonitrile. Peptides were eluted into the mass spectrometer at 300 nl min 1 with each RP-LC run comprising a 90 min gradient from 10 to 25%

B in 65 min, 2540% B in 25 min. The mass spectrometer was set to repetitively scan m/z from 300 to 1,800 (R 240,000 for LTQ-Orbitrap Elite) followed by

data-dependent MS/MS scans on the twenty most abundant ions, with a minimum signal of 5,000, dynamic exclusion with a repeat count of 1, repeat duration of 30 s, exclusion size of 500 and duration of 60 s, isolation width of 2.0, normalized collision energy of 33 and waveform injection and dynamic exclusion enabled. FTMS full scan AGC target value was 1e6, while MSn AGC was 1e4, respectively. FTMS full scan maximum ll time was 500 ms, while ion trap MSn ll time was 50 ms; microscans were set at 1. FT preview mode; charge state screening and monoisotopic precursor selection were all enabled with rejection of unassigned and 1 charge states.

For database search, MS/MS raw les were searched against a mouse protein sequence database including isoforms from the Uniprot Knowledgebase (taxonomy:10090 AND keyword: Complete proteome [KW-0181]) using MaxQuant version 1.4.1.2 with the following set parameters: xed modications, Carbamidomethyl (C); decoy mode, revert; MS/MS tolerance ITMS, 0.5 Da; false discovery rate for both peptides and proteins, 0.01; minimum peptide length, 6; modications included in protein quantication, acetyl (protein N-term), oxidation(M); peptides used for protein quantication, razor and unique. The numbers of peptide spectral matches to each protein were used for quantitative comparison between samples as described below.

For statistical analysis of mass spectrometry data, we adapted a method proposed by Choi59 to use the number of peptide spectral matches (PSMs) in each protein to determine the likelihood that the protein was differentially regulated across the control mice and the knockout mice. The idea is to develop a control

model and a knockout model, and, for each protein, to test whether the knockout model describes its expression data signicantly better than the control model. To

do so, we estimate a Bayes Factor Bp P M jData

P M j Data

for each protein. We assume that

the number of PSMs for protein p in sample i can be modelled as a Poisson distribution with mean lpi, since each element xpi in the data matrix X is count data. To combat the limited number of biological replicates in each treatment group, we pooled information across replicates and estimate each lpi using a control and knockout hierarchical log-linear model, denoted by:

MC : log lCpi

log Lp

log Ni

a0 cp 1

MK : log lKpi

log Lp

log Ni

a0 cp Tikp 2

where Lp is the length of protein p, Ni is the mean number of spectral counts in sample i,

0 ifsample i is a control mouse

1 ifsample i is a knockout mouse ;

a0 is a model constant, cp is a proteins native expression term and kp is a proteins knockout expression term. We give the model a well-dened structure by putting priors on a0BN(0, da2), cpBN(0, dc2), and kpBN(0, dk2). To make data-driven estimates of dc2 and dk2, we place hyper priors on these two parameters, given by dc2, dk2BInvGamma(0.1, 0.1). We let a0 oat, and thus set da2 102. We use these

parameters (denoted as a vector by h) to estimate a proteins Bayes Factor:

P MK jX

P MC jX

P XjMK; hK

hK MK j

P MK

P MC

j P XjMK; hK

h M

P XjM

C; hC

hC MC

j d

Eh M

j P XjM

C; hC

assuming we have no prior

knowledge of P MK

where the transition states hKn ! hKn1 are determined using Metropolis Hastings

and Gibbs Sampling Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques. Specically, at iteration n with parameter vector hK (we explain using the knockout model, since MCCMK),

P a0 j

aP X j a0 ;

P a0

N a0 ; 0; d2a

PNn1 P XjMK; hKn

and P MC

for any protein

limN!1 1N

PNn1 P XjMC; hCn

YpPoisson xpi j a0 ;

P cp j

X j cp ;

P c

N cp ; 0; d2c

Poisson xpi j cp ;

P kp j

Xj kp ;

P k

N kp ; 0; d2k

Poisson xpi j kp ;

P d2c j

aP cp

p1 j d2c

P d2c InvGamma 0:1

2 ; 0:1

PGp1 c2p 2

P d2k j

aP kp

p1 j d2k

P d2k

InvGamma 0:1

2 ; 0:1

PGp1 k2p 2

where G is the number of proteins.

To determine the set of proteins that signicantly changed in the knockout set with respect to the control set, we imposed a strict cutoff and the requirement that each protein have a Bayes Factor of at least 8 and a fold change of at least 2.0.

Statistical analysis. GraphPad Prism 5 was used to analyse data. All data are presented as means.d. Two-tailed Students t-tests were used for the comparison of two groups. A log-rank test was performed for KaplanMeier survival analysis. P-values of o0.05 (*), o0.01 (**) and o0.001 (***) were used to ascertain statistical signicance.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by NHLBI grants (HL40387, HL120846, HL110110) to C.S.A., T32 training grant (HL07439) to S.H.M., the Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Society Career Development Award to S.H.M., the American Society of Hematology Scholar Award to S.H.M, and the NIH/NIDDK Center for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Diseases (DK050306) and its Core Facilities (Molecular Pathology and Imaging). We thank Skip Brass, Mark Kahn, Edward Behrens, Claudio Giraudo and Long

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S.H.M. planned and performed experiments, data analysis and presentation of most of the experiments and wrote the manuscript; A.S. and T.J.S. carried out experiments;L.Z., Y.W., M.J.R., J.F.G., S.Z., L.L. and R.M. provided technical assistance; C.M. and S.H.S. performed the proteomics experiments and analysis; J.K.C. contributed to the data analyses; G.K. and M.S.M. provided critical reagents and contributed to the data analyses; C.S.A. supervised the project and wrote the manuscript.

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PIKfyve is essential for the synthesis of phosphatidylinositol-3,5-bisphosphate [PtdIns(3,5)P₂ ] and for the regulation of endolysosomal membrane dynamics in mammals. PtdIns(3,5)P₂ deficiency causes neurodegeneration in mice and humans, but the role of PtdIns(3,5)P₂ in non-neural tissues is poorly understood. Here we show that platelet-specific ablation of PIKfyve in mice leads to accelerated arterial thrombosis, and, unexpectedly, also to inappropriate inflammatory responses characterized by macrophage accumulation in multiple tissues. These multiorgan defects are attenuated by platelet depletion in vivo, confirming that they reflect a platelet-specific process. PIKfyve ablation in platelets induces defective maturation and excessive storage of lysosomal enzymes that are released upon platelet activation. Impairing lysosome secretion from PIKfyve-null platelets in vivo markedly attenuates the multiorgan defects, suggesting that platelet lysosome secretion contributes to pathogenesis. Our findings identify PIKfyve as an essential regulator for platelet lysosome homeostasis, and demonstrate the contributions of platelet lysosomes to inflammation, arterial thrombosis and macrophage biology.

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Loss of PIKfyve in platelets causes a lysosomal disease leading to inflammation and thrombosis in mice

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Min, Sang H; Suzuki, Aae; Stalker, Timothy J; Zhao, Liang; Wang, Yuhuan; Mckennan, Chris; Riese, Matthew J; Guzman, Jessica F; Zhang, Suhong; Lian, Lurong; Joshi, Rohan; Meng, Ronghua; Seeholzer, Steven H; Choi, John K; Koretzky, Gary; Marks, Michael S; Abrams, Charles S

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