Adioophilin在动脉粥样硬化中的作用机制

adipophilin是脂滴周围相关蛋白,能促进脂质蓄积和细胞内脂滴的形成,在泡沫细胞的形成中起到重要作用,是动脉粥样硬化脂质蓄积的一个标记物。但目前对其脂质蓄积机制的研究不是十分明确。本文对adipophilin在调节脂质蓄积过程中的机制做一综述,以期为动脉粥样硬化治疗提供新的理论依据和药物靶点,推动动脉粥样硬化治疗方法的发展。     

蛋白激酶C活性变化对Adipophilin介导THP-1巨噬细胞脂质蓄积的影响

以THP-1巨噬细胞为研究对象,观察蛋白激酶C(PKC)激动剂佛波酯(PMA)和抑制剂钙磷酸结合蛋白C(CalphostinC)对胞膜PKC活性、胞膜PKCα及胞浆内过氧化物酶体增殖物激活受体(PPARγ)和adipophilin表达以及细胞内脂质蓄积的影响,初步探讨PKC调控adipophilin表达及脂质蓄积的作用机制.采用PepTagRAssay、RT-PCR、蛋白质印迹、油红O染色和高效液相色谱法,观察到100nmol/LPMA在激活胞膜PKC((0.2514±0.0154)U/ml)的同时可以与氧化低密度脂蛋白(oxLDL)协同增强PKCα、PPARγ和adipophilin表达并使细胞内脂滴的蓄积极大地增强.细胞内胆固醇酯/总胆固醇比值增至(69.8±9.5)%;300nmol/L CalphostinC对荷脂THP-1巨噬细胞的处理则抑制酶活性至((0.0927±0.0056)U/ml,细胞内脂滴减少,胆固醇酯/总胆固醇比值降至(40.1±9.1)%;CalphostinC呈剂量依赖性的方式下调酶活性、PKCα、PPARγ和adipophilin表达,400nmol/LCalphostinC基本上可以逆转50mg/LoxLDL诱导的酶活化和PKCα、PPARγ和adipophilin表达的上调.结果提示,蛋白激酶C活性的改变可以影响adipophilin介导的脂质蓄积,其中PPARγ可能在这一调控机制中发挥了重要作用.     

Adipophilin在不同组织和器官中的功能

Adipophilin（ADFP）是一种脂滴周围主要的相关蛋白,它大量分布在脂质蓄积正常或不正常的细胞中,是脂质蓄积的一个特异性标记物。它在脂肪细胞分化早期就有很高的表达,但当脂肪细胞成熟后,它的表达就明显减少。ADFP在很多组织器官中都发挥重要作用,它不仅参与脂肪细胞的脂质代谢、脂滴的形成及肝内三酰甘油（TO）的合成与代谢,还能促进巨噬细胞、平滑肌细胞的泡沫化,长链脂肪酸的摄取,乳汁的分泌等。ADFP的表达异常与动脉粥样硬化、胰岛素抵抗和肿瘤等病理过程密切相关。     

脂肪分化相关蛋白的研究进展

细胞内脂滴是一种代谢活跃的细胞器,脂滴表面蛋白在脂滴的代谢调节中起到了重要作用。ADRP是一种重要的脂滴表面蛋白,在机体组织和细胞内广泛表达。脂肪肝、动脉粥样硬化、糖尿病等均伴随脂质的异常蓄积,近年来的研究表明ADRP参与这些疾病的发生发展。本文就ADRP在各组织和器官正常的生理功能以及对疾病状态的调控加以综述。     

高表达和敲减adipophilin对细胞内ERK1/2活性、PPARγ表达和细胞内脂质蓄积的影响

本课题组以前的研究表明,adipophilin通过ERK1/2-PPARγ信号转导通路促进细胞内的脂质蓄积.为了研究高表达和敲减adipophilin是否影响RAW264.7细胞内ERK1/2的活性、PPARγ的表达以及细胞内的脂质蓄积,从而进一步证实这一通路,阐明adipophilin促进泡沫细胞形成的机制.重组pQCXIP-HA-Adipophilin和pSuper-retro-adipophilin siRNA逆转录病毒载体经酶切检测证实,并用SofastTM介导转染到包装细胞PA317中,经培养后释放逆转录病毒.将收集的逆转录病毒感染RAW264.7细胞,经嘌呤霉素筛选后获得稳定高表达和敲减adipophilin的细胞系.用50 mg/L的氧化低密度脂蛋白处理细胞24 h后,用油红O染色法和高效液相色谱法测定细胞内的脂质蓄积情况,用半定量RT-PCR和蛋白质印迹分别检测adipophilin和PPARγ的mRNA和蛋白质的表达,用蛋白质印迹对与动脉粥样硬化发病有关的ERK1/2及其磷酸化进行检测.酶切结果表明,pQCXIP-HA-Adipophilin和pSuper-retro-adipophilin siRNA重组逆转录病毒载体构建成功.在荷脂情况下,pQCXIP-HA-Adipophilin转染的细胞能明显增加细胞内的脂质蓄积,但使PPARγ的表达和ERK1/2的磷酸化下调,这些作用可被adipophilin siRNA逆转.结果表明,adipophilin与泡沫细胞的形成有关,adipophilin可能是通过ERK1/2-PPARγ途径促进细胞内的脂质蓄积.     

Adipophilin在动脉粥样硬化病变和脂质负荷细胞中的作用研究(英)

Adipophilin是细胞内脂质聚集和与脂质聚集有关疾病的标志物,巨噬细胞源性泡沫细胞的形成是动脉粥样硬化性疾病发生的重要环节.为了探讨adipophilin在动脉粥样硬化性疾病的作用,通过高胆固醇饲料喂养新西兰白兔12周,复制动脉粥样硬化疾病模型,同时测定血脂的变化和动脉壁胆固醇,使用HE染色、苏丹Ⅳ染色观察动脉粥样硬化病变的形成,使用免疫组织化学的方法观察动脉粥样硬化病变处和动物肝脏中adipophilin的表达.结果发现,高胆固醇饲料喂养组血清总胆固醇、低密度脂蛋白胆固醇和动脉壁胆固醇明显增高,动脉粥样硬化病变面积增加到(40.06±7.29)%,动脉粥样硬化病变处adipophilin表达呈阳性;而adipophilin在肝脏中的表达无论是高胆固醇饲料喂养组或对照组均为阴性.使用80 mg/L OxLDL与小鼠腹膜巨噬细胞共孵育,复制脂质负荷细胞,然后把构建的1 mmol/L adipophilin反义寡核苷酸与该细胞共孵育.结果发现,使用油红O染色观察的细胞内脂滴明显减少,生化测定细胞内胆固醇酯显著降低,与对照组相比,差别有显著性.说明adipophilin与动脉粥样硬化病变有密切的关系,控制adipophilin的表达能够减少巨噬细胞细胞内胆固醇酯的聚集.     

一个新的脂质蓄积标记物--亲脂蛋白

亲脂蛋白是真核细胞胞内脂滴的一个不完全包被蛋白,其表达异常与动脉粥样硬化、糖尿病和肥胖等脂质蓄积性疾病的发生与发展密切相关,是脂质蓄积的一个敏感标记物.参与的功能主要是中性脂质的蓄积与脂滴的形成、长链脂肪酸的转运、乳脂的分泌以及对肺表面活性剂磷脂合成的促进等.     

Adipophilin在动脉粥样硬化病变和脂质负荷细胞中的作用研究(英文)

Adipophilin是细胞内脂质聚集和与脂质聚集有关疾病的标志物 ,巨噬细胞源性泡沫细胞的形成是动脉粥样硬化性疾病发生的重要环节 .为了探讨adipophilin在动脉粥样硬化性疾病的作用 ,通过高胆固醇饲料喂养新西兰白兔 12周 ,复制动脉粥样硬化疾病模型 ,同时测定血脂的变化和动脉壁胆固醇 ,使用HE染色、苏丹Ⅳ染色观察动脉粥样硬化病变的形成 ,使用免疫组织化学的方法观察动脉粥样硬化病变处和动物肝脏中adipophilin的表达 .结果发现 ,高胆固醇饲料喂养组血清总胆固醇、低密度脂蛋白胆固醇和动脉壁胆固醇明显增高 ,动脉粥样硬化病变面积增加到 (40 0 6± 7 2 9) % ,动脉粥样硬化病变处adipophilin表达呈阳性 ;而adipophilin在肝脏中的表达无论是高胆固醇饲料喂养组或对照组均为阴性 .使用80mg/L OxLDL与小鼠腹膜巨噬细胞共孵育 ,复制脂质负荷细胞 ,然后把构建的 1mmol/Ladipophilin反义寡核苷酸与该细胞共孵育 .结果发现 ,使用油红O染色观察的细胞内脂滴明显减少 ,生化测定细胞内胆固醇酯显著降低 ,与对照组相比 ,差别有显著性 .说明adipophilin与动脉粥样硬化病变有密切的关系 ,控制adipophilin的表达能够减少巨噬细胞细胞内胆固醇酯的聚集     

脂滴膜转运蛋白Rab18与脂质代谢的关系研究

脂滴是动物细胞内储存脂质的一种亚细胞器。脂滴表面存在多种脂滴周围相关蛋白,参与脂质动态平衡的调节,防止脂质代谢异常的发生。其中,Rab18作为脂滴周围相关蛋白中的一种,在脂质代谢的调节、信号的转导、膜运输等多种生理功能中发挥重要作用。对于Rab18与脂质代谢之间关系的研究,为动脉粥样硬化、糖尿病、非酒精性脂肪肝及肥胖等多种代谢性疾病的防治发挥重要作用,本文就Rab18与细胞脂质代谢之间的关系研究作一综述。     

一种快速分析细胞内脂质沉积的方法

目的:建立快速分析细胞内脂质沉积的方法。方法:以油酸刺激人肝癌细胞形成脂质沉积,利用BODIPY 493/503染色细胞内脂滴,在Matlab环境下以荧光图像分析技术分析脂滴荧光强度;采用蛋白印迹法分析脂质沉积标志蛋白——脂滴表面蛋白Adipophilin的蛋白水平,以及采用实时荧光定量PCR法检测Adipophilin的基因表达水平,以验证荧光图像分析技术的可靠性。结果:利用荧光图像分析技术建立了快速定量脂质沉积的方法,结果显示该方法下400μmol/L油酸显著提高细胞内脂质含量达1.41倍,与标志蛋白Adipophilin的蛋白水平增高2.07倍,基因表达水平增高1.53倍一致。结论:该可快速定量细胞内脂质沉积水平,且结果可靠。     

Adipophilin increases triglyceride storage in human macrophages by stimulation of biosynthesis and inhibition of beta-oxidation

Lipid accumulation alters macrophage biology and contributes to lipid retention within the vessel wall. In this study, we investigated the role of adipophilin on triglyceride accumulation and lipid-droplet formation in THP-1-derived macrophages (THP-1 macrophages). In the presence of acetylated low-density lipoprotein, macrophages infected with an adenovirus expressing human adipophilin showed a 31% increase in triglyceride content and a greater number of lipid droplets compared with control cells. Incubation of macrophages with very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) dramatically increased cellular triglyceride content similarly in control and adipophilin-overexpressing cells. By itself, VLDL increased adipophilin expression, which explains the lack of effect of adipophilin overexpression on cellular triglyceride content in macrophages loaded with VLDL. The lipid-droplet content of macrophages was increased by overexpression of adipophilin and/or loading with VLDL. In contrast, inhibition of adipophilin expression using siRNA prevented lipid-droplet formation and significantly reduced intracellular triglyceride content. Using inhibitors of beta-oxidation and acyl-coenzyme A synthetase, results were obtained which suggest that adipophilin elevates cellular lipids by inhibition of beta-oxidation and stimulation of long-chain fatty acid incorporation into triglycerides. Adipophilin expression in THP-1 macrophages altered the cellular content of different lipids and enhanced the size of lipid droplets, consistent with a role for adipophilin in human foam cell formation.     

S3-12, Adipophilin, and TIP47 package lipid in adipocytes

Animals have evolved mechanisms to maintain circulating nutrient levels when energy demands exceed feeding opportunities. Mammals store most of their energy as triacylglycerol in the perilipin-coated lipid droplets of adipocytes. How newly synthesized triacylglycerol is delivered to perilipin-coated lipid droplets is poorly understood. Perilipin is a member of the evolutionarily related family of PAT proteins (Perilipin, Adipophilin, TIP47), which is defined by sequence similarity and association with lipid droplets. We previously showed that S3-12, which is also a member of this family, associates with a separate pool of lipid droplets that emerge when triacylglycerol storage is driven by adding oleate to the culture medium of adipocytes. Our current data extend these findings to demonstrate that nascent lipid droplets emerge with a coat composed of S3-12, TIP47, and adipophilin. After 100 min of oleate treatment, the nascent lipid droplets are more heterogeneous: S3-12 and TIP47 coat smaller, peripheral droplets and adipophilin coats a more medial population of droplets. Fractionation of untreated and oleate-treated adipocytes shows oleate-dependent redistribution of TIP47 and adipophilin from cytosolic fractions to the lipid droplet fraction. Inhibition of protein synthesis with cycloheximide does not block the oleate-induced formation of the nascent lipid droplets, nor does it prevent TAG accumulation. We suggest that the non-lipid droplet pools of S3-12, adipophilin, and TIP47 constitute a ready reservoir of coat proteins to permit rapid packaging of newly synthesized triacylglycerol and to maximize energy storage during nutrient excess.     

Adipophilin is a sensitive marker for lipid loading in human blood monocytes.

Adipophilin, a marker of lipid accumulation initially described in adipocytes, was recently shown to be induced in macrophage foam cells. We found that even freshly isolated blood monocytes express adipophilin and that the amount of adipophilin protein is variable in monocytes from different healthy individuals. However, the physiological expression of adipophilin does not correlate with the levels of free fatty acids, cholesterylesters or free cholesterol. Enzymatically modified low-density lipoprotein (E-LDL) induces rapid foam cell formation in monocytes and upregulates adipophilin mRNA and protein within 2 h of incubation. This rapid induction of adipophilin is accompanied by a significant increase of free fatty acids in monocytes incubated with E-LDL. Adipophilin facilitates the uptake of free fatty acids, and here we demonstrate that free fatty acids increase is related to the early upregulation of adipophilin expression in blood monocytes. Fatty acids are ligands for peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma (PPARgamma), and the upregulation of adipophilin mRNA by PPARgamma agonists like 15d-PGJ(2) and ciglitazone indicates that PPARgamma may mediate the induction of adipophilin expression in human blood monocytes.     

The molecular mechanism of acylation stimulating protein regulation of adipophilin and perilipin expression: involvement of phosphoinositide 3-kinase and phospholipase C

The novel adipokine acylation stimulating protein (ASP) is involved in lipid metabolism and obesity‐related disorders. Adipophilin and perilipin, two members of the lipid droplet protein family, participate not only in fat storage within adipocytes, but also in ectopic lipid deposition in the form of cytoplasmic triglyceride (TG) droplets within many types of mammalian cells. During differentiation to mature adipocytes, mechanisms controlling the synthesis and turnover of these lipid droplet proteins are only partially understood, the mechanisms regulating gene/protein expression as yet unidentified. In our previous study, ASP has been shown to regulate adipophilin and perilipin expression to facilitate TG synthesis during 3T3‐L1 cell differentiation. Our aim in this study was to provide insight into the physiological importance of phosphoinositide 3‐kinase (PI3K) and phospholipase C (PLC) in ASP‐triggered alteration of adipophilin and perilipin expression. We found that acute (2.5 h) inhibition of PLC or PI3K results in a decrease in mRNA and protein of perilipin and adipophilin at any time during differentiation. The fact that there is such a rapid change even with mRNA levels suggests a rapid turnover of both mRNA and protein independent of a direct ASP effect. Also, the presence of these inhibitors blocked the ASP stimulatory effects with a maximal decrease in gene and protein expression of adipophilin (?45% and ?60%, respectively, P < 0.01) and perilipin (?96% and ?63%, respectively, P < 0.01 and P < 0.05). These findings provide further understanding of the adipogenic properties of ASP in adipocytes. J. Cell. Biochem. 112: 1622–1629, 2011. © 2011 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.     

Differential association of adipophilin and TIP47 proteins with cytoplasmic lipid droplets in mouse enterocytes during dietary fat absorption

Recently, we found that enterocytes dynamically store triglycerides (TGs) in cytoplasmic lipid droplets (CLDs) during dietary fat absorption. A dynamic pool of TG in the form of CLDs which expands and depletes relative to time post dietary fat challenge is present in the absorptive cells of the small intestine, enterocytes. To identify cellular factors which may play a role in the regulation of this dynamic process we investigated the expression and localization of a lipid droplet associated protein family, PAT proteins, in enterocytes of mice chronically and acutely challenged by dietary fat. We found that adipophilin and Tip47 are the only PAT genes present in mouse intestinal mucosa and both genes are present at higher levels after high-fat challenges. We found TIP47 protein present in the intestine from chow and high-fat challenged mice; however, adipophilin protein was only present after high-fat challenges. In addition, TIP47 protein level was higher after an acute than a chronic high-fat challenge whereas adipophilin protein level was higher after a chronic than an acute high-fat challenge. We co-imaged TG in CLDs using CARS microscopy and TIP47 or adipophilin using immunocytochemistry in isolated enterocytes from mice challenged chronically and acutely by high levels of dietary fat. TIP47, but not adipophilin, coats CLDs in enterocytes after an acute high-fat challenge suggesting that TIP47 plays a role in the synthesis of CLDs from newly synthesized TG at the beginning of the process of dietary fat absorption in enterocytes. Adipophilin, on the other hand, coats CLDs only in enterocytes of chronic high-fat fed mice suggesting that adipophilin may play a role in the stabilization of TG stored in CLDs in longer term. These results suggest distinct roles for TIP47 and adipophilin in dietary fat absorption.     

A caveolin dominant negative mutant associates with lipid bodies and induces intracellular cholesterol imbalance

Recent studies have indicated a role for caveolin in regulating cholesterol-dependent signaling events. In the present study we have analyzed the role of caveolins in intracellular cholesterol cycling using a dominant negative caveolin mutant. The mutant caveolin protein, cav-3(DGV), specifically associates with the membrane surrounding large lipid droplets. These structures contain neutral lipids, and are accessed by caveolin 1-3 upon overexpression. Fluorescence, electron, and video microscopy observations are consistent with formation of the membrane-enclosed lipid rich structures by maturation of subdomains of the ER. The caveolin mutant causes the intracellular accumulation of free cholesterol (FC) in late endosomes, a decrease in surface cholesterol and a decrease in cholesterol efflux and synthesis. The amphiphile U18666A acts synergistically with cav(DGV) to increase intracellular accumulation of FC. Incubation of cells with oleic acid induces a significant accumulation of full-length caveolins in the enlarged lipid droplets. We conclude that caveolin can associate with the membrane surrounding lipid droplets and is a key component involved in intracellular cholesterol balance and lipid transport in fibroblasts.