Differential distribution of cholesterol pools across arteries under high-cholesterol diet.

Autor: Schneider EH; Department of Pharmacology, Addiction Science and Toxicology, College of Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, United States., Fitzgerald AC; Department of Pharmacology, Addiction Science and Toxicology, College of Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, United States., Ponnapula SS; Department of Pharmacology, Addiction Science and Toxicology, College of Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, United States., Dopico AM; Department of Pharmacology, Addiction Science and Toxicology, College of Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, United States., Bukiya AN; Department of Pharmacology, Addiction Science and Toxicology, College of Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, United States. Electronic address: abukiya@uthsc.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular and cell biology of lipids [Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids] 2022 Dec; Vol. 1867 (12), pp. 159235. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Sep 13.
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2022.159235
Abstrakt: Excessive cholesterol constitutes a major risk factor for vascular disease. Within cells, cholesterol is distributed in detergent-sensitive and detergent-resistant fractions, with the largest amount of cholesterol residing in cellular membranes. We set out to determine whether various arteries differ in their ability to accumulate esterified and non-esterified cholesterol in detergent-sensitive versus detergent-resistant fractions throughout the course of a high-cholesterol diet. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were placed on 2 % cholesterol diet while a control group was receiving iso-caloric standard chow. Liver, aorta, and pulmonary, mesenteric, and cerebral arteries were collected at 2-6, 8-12, 14-18, and 20-24 weeks from the start of high-cholesterol diet. After fraction separation, esterified and free non-esterified cholesterol levels were measured. In all arteries, largest cholesterol amounts were present in detergent-sensitive fractions in the non-esterified form. Overall, cholesterol in aorta and cerebral arteries was elevated during 14-18 weeks of high-cholesterol diet. Cerebral arteries also exhibited increase in esterified cholesterol within detergent-sensitive domains, as well as increase in cholesterol level in the detergent-resistant fraction at earlier time-points of diet. Pulmonary artery and mesenteric artery were largely resistant to cholesterol accumulation. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) analysis revealed up-regulation of low-density lipoprotein receptor (Ldlr) and low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1 (Lrp1) gene expression in cerebral arteries when compared to mesenteric and pulmonary arteries, respectively. In summary, we unveiled the differential ability of arteries to accumulate cholesterol over the course of a high-cholesterol diet. The differential accumulation of cholesterol seems to correlate with the up-regulated gene expression of proteins responsible for cholesterol uptake.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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