Affiliation:
1. Department of Preventive Medicine, Medicine and Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, Missouri
Abstract
Atherosclerosis occurs at an accelerated rate in patients with diabetes mellitus. Since some proteins undergo nonenzymatic glycosylation in diabetic patients and because certain chemical modifications of low density lipoproteins produced alterations in their interactions with certain cultgred cells, a fact that may be relevant to atherogenesis, we investigated the effect of in vitro glycosylation on cell-related properties of low density lipoproteins.
Glycosylation was carried out by incubating LDL (1–10 mg LDL-protein/ml) with glucose (0–100 mM) in 0.5 M phosphate buffer, pH 8.0, at 37°C. The amount of glucose incorporated into LDL after 1–2 wk of incubation was estimated to be in the range of 1–10 mol/mol LDL-protein. Amino acid analysis of glycosylated LDL showed that glucose was covalently bound to lysine residues.
In studies with cultured human fibroblasts, glycosylated LDL was internalized and degraded significantly less than control LDL, in proportion to the estimated degree of glycosylation (12% of control for the most extensively glycosylated LDL). Glycosylation of LDL also impaired significantly its ability to stimulate cholesteryl ester synthesis by cultured fibroblasts. Glycosylated LDL did not stimulate cholesteryl ester synthesis in rat peritoneal macrophages. If glycosylation of LDL occurs in diabetic patients, some pathophysiologic consequences related to the increased incidence of atherosclerosis in these patients may result.
Publisher
American Diabetes Association
Subject
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism,Internal Medicine
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