Abstract
During the atherogenic processin vivo, arterial smooth muscle cells (SMC) undergo changes in their phenotype. In the present study, rat SMC from primary cultures and from subcultures before 10 and after 200 passages, showing contractile-like, synthetic and transformed phenotypes, respectively, were compared in regard to their lipid content and biosynthesis. The rationale for comparing these phenotypes rests in the similar changes in phenotype of SMC that occur in the formation and progression of atherosclerotic lesions. Phenotype changes were shown to be associated with changes in the phospholipid content of SMC. Phospholipid levels increased, but not as significantly as did cholesterol levels when passing from contractile to synthetic and transformed cells (1.23±0.18, 2.28±0.26 and 3.25±0.23 μg/106 cells, respectively). Cholesterol normalized in respect to cell protein was increased to the same extent. Lipid synthesis as judged by [14C]acetate incorporation was increased 3- to 12-fold in the synthetic and transformed cells, respectively, compared to contractile cells. After thin-layer chromatography, radioactivity was shown to be markedly increased in most of the lipid fractions, but label in the cholesterol fraction of synthetic and transformed cells was increased by 7- and 21-fold, respectively. Thus, SMCin vitro were shown to drastically increase cholesterol biosynthesis associated with phenotype changes. Such changes are known to occurin vivo and might represent a critical step in the deposition of excess cholesterol within foam cells.
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Abbreviations
- 1,2-DG:
-
1,2-diacylglycerols
- 1,3-DG:
-
1,3-diacylglycerols
- FFA:
-
free fatty acids
- HMG-CoA:
-
3-hydroxy-3-methyl glutaryl coenzyme A
- MEM:
-
minimum essential medium
- PDGF:
-
platelet-derived growth factor
- SMC:
-
smooth muscle cells
- TG:
-
triacylglycerols
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Dusserre, E., Bourdillon, MC., Ciavatti, M. et al. Lipid biosynthesis in cultured arterial smooth muscle cells is related to their phenotype. Lipids 28, 589–592 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02536051
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