Role of Low-Density Lipoprotein in Early Vascular Aging Associated With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

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OBJECTIVE: Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) often have atherosclerotic complications at a young age but normal low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels. This study was undertaken to investigate the role of LDL composition in promoting early vascular aging in SLE patients.

METHODS: Plasma LDL from 45 SLE patients (SLE-LDL) and from 37 normal healthy controls (N-LDL) was chromatographically divided into 5 subfractions (L1-L5), and the subfraction composition was analyzed. Correlations between subfraction levels and signs of early vascular aging were assessed. Mechanisms of lipid-mediated endothelial dysfunction were explored using in vitro assays and experiments in apoE-/- mice.

RESULTS: The L5 percentage was increased 3.4 times in the plasma of SLE patients compared with normal controls. This increased percentage of SLE-L5 was positively correlated with the mean blood pressure (r = 0.27, P = 0.04), carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) (right carotid IMT, r = 0.4, P = 0.004; left carotid IMT, r = 0.36, P = 0.01), pulse wave velocity (r = 0.29, P = 0.04), and blood levels of CD16+ monocytes (r = 0.35, P = 0.004) and CX3CL1 cytokines (r = 0.43, P < 0.001) in SLE patients. Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time-of-flight mass spectrometry analysis revealed that plasma levels of lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) and platelet-activating factor (PAF) were increased in SLE-LDL and in the SLE-L5 plasma subfraction. Injecting SLE-LDL, SLE-L5, or LPC into young, male apoE-/- mice caused increases in plasma CX3CL1 levels, aortic fatty-streak areas, aortic vascular aging, and macrophage infiltration into the aortic wall, whereas injection of N-LDL or SLE-L1 had negligible effects (n = 3-8 mice per group). In vitro, SLE-L5 lipid extracts induced increases in CX3CR1 and CD16 expression in human monocytes; synthetic PAF and LPC had similar effects. Furthermore, lipid extracts of SLE-LDL and SLE-L5 induced the expression of CX3CL1 and enhanced monocyte-endothelial cell adhesion in assays with bovine aortic endothelial cells.

CONCLUSION: An increase in plasma L5 levels, not total LDL concentration, may promote early vascular aging in SLE patients, leading to premature atherosclerosis.

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CommentIn: Nat Rev Rheumatol. 2020 Apr;16(4):187. - PMID 32094755

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:72

Enthalten in:

Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) - 72(2020), 6 vom: 01. Juni, Seite 972-984

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chan, Hua-Chen [VerfasserIn]
Chan, Hsiu-Chuan [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Chan-Jung [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Hsiang-Chun [VerfasserIn]
Su, Hung [VerfasserIn]
Lee, An-Sheng [VerfasserIn]
Shiea, Jentaie [VerfasserIn]
Tsai, Wen-Chan [VerfasserIn]
Ou, Tsan-Teng [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Cheng-Chin [VerfasserIn]
Chu, Chih-Sheng [VerfasserIn]
Dixon, Richard A [VerfasserIn]
Ke, Liang-Yin [VerfasserIn]
Yen, Jeng-Hsien [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Chu-Huang [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Lipoproteins, LDL
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 22.07.2020

Date Revised 22.07.2020

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: Nat Rev Rheumatol. 2020 Apr;16(4):187. - PMID 32094755

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1002/art.41213

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NLM305902687