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Prostaglandins play an important role in the platelet-vessel wall interaction. The inhibition of PGI2 synthetase results in an increase of platelet thrombosis induced by adeno-sine diphosphate. Addition of exogenous arachidonic acid further increases the phenomenon. The ratio of cyclic endoperoxides (PGG₂ and PGH₂) to prostacyclin (PGI₂) could well be the determining trigger in platelet-vessel wall interaction and local thrombosis.

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In this report the structure of the novel polypeptide h3, isolated from subsets of tissues of a single species, and the structural similarity between interspecies h3 were investigated by peptide mapping of enzymatic and chemical cleavage fragments of h3 in one-dimensional SDS-PAGE; the peptide maps were commented on in comparison with the known sequence of 21 kDa protein, a h3-like ox brain protein. The following results were obtained: peptides generated by chymotrypsin, protease XX, BNPS-skatole and CNBr cleavage of different tissues in a single species were strikingly identical, whereas peptide maps obtained from analogue tissues in different species revealed slight structural differences. Possible ligand-h3 binding was studied by comparing the c.d. spectra of native h3, and h3 incubated with several phospholipids. Given the presence of h3 or h3-like protein in rat and human platelets, h3 was also assessed in platelet aggregation in the presence of h3 and specific anti-h3 antiserum. So far, the results emphasize the unique intra- and interspecies molecular form of h3, allow us to assign to known amino acid sequence of 21 kDa to a large extent to human h3, but do not identify h3 as a phospholipid binding protein.