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PLOS ONE
Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123138
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- National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NIH/NHLBI) [R01HL58012, R01HL112270, R01HL112276, PO1HL087018, R01HL111614]
- American Heart Association (AHA) Predoctoral Fellowship [AHA14PRE185800221]
- AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship [AHA13POST14800034]
- NIH Shared Instrumentation [1S10RR17846]
- North Carolina Biotechnology [2007-IDG-1021]
- National Cancer Institute center grant [5P30CA12197]
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High density lipoproteins (HDL) are considered athero-protective, primarily due to their role in reverse cholesterol transport, where they transport cholesterol from peripheral tissues to the liver for excretion. The current study was designed to determine the impact of HDL modification by acrolein, a highly reactive aldehyde found in high abundance in cigarette smoke, on the cholesterol transport functions of HDL. HDL was chemically-modified with acrolein and immunoblot and mass spectrometry analyses confirmed apolipoprotein crosslinking, as well as acrolein adducts on apolipoproteins A-I and A-II. The ability of acrolein-modified HDL (acro-HDL) to serve as an acceptor of free cholesterol (FC) from COS-7 cells transiently expressing SR-BI was significantly decreased. Further, in contrast to native HDL, acroHDL promotes higher neutral lipid accumulation in murine macrophages as judged by Oil Red O staining. The ability of acro-HDL to mediate efficient selective uptake of HDL-cholesteryl esters (CE) into SR-BI-expressing cells was reduced compared to native HDL. Together, the findings from our studies suggest that acrolein modification of HDL produces a dysfunctional particle that may ultimately promote atherogenesis by impairing functions that are critical in the reverse cholesterol transport pathway.
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