Journal
CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH
Volume 94, Issue 3, Pages 469-479Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvs136
Keywords
LRP1; Cardiomyocytes; Cholesteryl esters; Hypoxia; HIF-1
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- Instituto Salud Carlos III
- Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional [FIS PI080351]
- Fundacio MARATO TV3 [080110]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Bonn, Germany)
- MICINN [RyC-2009-05495]
- REDINSCOR [RD06/0003/0000, RD06/0003/0015]
- [CIBER-OBN03/2006]
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The myocardium accumulates intracellular lipids under ischaemic conditions, and myocardial fat deposition is closely associated with cardiac dysfunction. Our aims were to analyse the effect of hypoxia on low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1 (LRP1) expression in neonatal rat ventricular myocytes (NRVM) and cardiac-derived HL-1 cells and the molecular mechanisms involved in this effect, to determine the role of LRP1 in the very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) uptake by hypoxic cardiomyocytes, and to study the effect of hypoxia on lipoprotein receptor expression and myocardial lipid profile in an in vivo porcine experimental model of acute myocardial infarction. Thin-layer chromatography after lipid extraction showed that VLDL exposure leads to cholesteryl ester (CE) and triglyceride (TG) accumulation in a dose-dependent manner and that hypoxic conditions further increased VLDL-derived intracellular lipid accumulation in HL-1 cells. Knockdown of LRP1 through lentiviral-mediated interfering RNA specifically prevented hypoxia-induced VLDL-CE internalization in HL-1 cells and NRVM. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced LRP1 overexpression specifically increased VLDL-CE accumulation in NRVM. In addition, using double-radiolabelled [H-3]CE-[C-14]TG-VLDL, we found that LRP1 deficiency specifically prevented hypoxia-induced VLDL-[H-3]CE uptake. Finally, in an in vivo porcine model of infarcted myocardium, ischaemic areas exhibited LRP1 protein up-regulation and intramyocardial CE overaccumulation. Our results demonstrate that hypoxia increases LRP1 expression through HIF-1 and that LRP1 overexpression mediates hypoxia-induced VLDL-CE uptake and accumulation in cardiomyocytes.
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