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PHYSIOLOGICAL GENOMICS
Volume 45, Issue 11, Pages 434-446Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00038.2013
Keywords
childhood obesity; overnutrition; endothelial function; gene expression
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- University of Missouri Mizzou Advantage
- AHA [11POST5080002]
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [T32-AR-048523, RO1HL-085119, RO1HL-036088, VA-CDA-IK2 BX-001299-01]
- Allen Foundation
- NIH [RR-013223, HL-062552]
- College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine
- Dalton Cardiovacular Research Center at the University of Missouri
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We adopted a transcriptome-wide microarray analysis approach to determine the extent to which vascular gene expression is altered as a result of juvenile obesity and identify obesity-responsive mRNAs. We examined transcriptional profiles in the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD), perivascular fat adjacent to the LAD, and descending thoracic aorta between obese (n = 5) and lean (n = 6) juvenile Ossabaw pigs (age = 22 wk). Obesity was experimentally induced by feeding the animals a high-fat/high-fructose corn syrup/high-cholesterol diet for 16 wk. We found that expression of 189 vascular cell genes in the LAD and expression of 165 genes in the thoracic aorta were altered with juvenile obesity (false discovery rate <= 10%) with an overlap of only 28 genes between both arteries. Notably, a number of genes found to be markedly upregulated in the LAD of obese pigs are implicated in atherosclerosis, including ACP5, LYZ, CXCL14, APOE, PLA2G7, LGALS3, SPP1, ITGB2, CYBB, and P2RY12. Furthermore, pathway analysis revealed the induction of proinflammatory and pro-oxidant pathways with obesity primarily in the LAD. Gene expression in the LAD perivascular fat was minimally altered with juvenile obesity. Together, we provide new evidence that obesity produces artery-specific changes in pretranslational regulation with a clear upregulation of proatherogenic genes in the LAD. Our data may offer potential viable drug targets and mechanistic insights regarding the molecular precursors involved in the origins of overnutrition and obesity-associated vascular disease. In particular, our results suggest that the oxidized LDL/LOX-1/NF-= B signaling axis may be involved in the early initiation of a juvenile obesity-induced proatherogenic coronary artery phenotype.
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