Anti-inflammatory effects of phospholipid transfer protein (PLTP) deficiency in mice |
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Authors: | Schlitt Axel Liu Jin Yan Daoguang Mondragon-Escorpizo Mary Norin Allen J Jiang Xian-Cheng |
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Institution: | Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, 11203, USA. axelschlitt@gmx.net |
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Abstract: | We previously reported that phospholipid transfer protein-deficient (PLTP KO) mice exhibit a lower rate of atherosclerosis. We proposed two possible mechanisms: a reduction in hepatic apoB secretion (Nat Med 7 (2001) 847) and induction of lipoprotein anti-oxidation activity (J Biol Chem 277 (2002) 31850). We now hypothesized that PLTP KO mice may exhibit an anti-inflammatory state per se. First, we found that PLTP KO mice have significantly lower IL-6 levels than wild type (WT) mice. Secondly, we found that IL-6 treatment increased plasma TNFalpha levels in WT mice, but not in PLTP KO mice. Thirdly, we used flow cytometric analyses to measure the mean fluorescence intensity of I-A(b), a MHC-class II molecule, on peripheral monocytes and found that IL-6 treatment significantly increased the I-A(b)-positive cell levels in WT mice, whereas no changes were observed in the cell levels in PLTP KO mice. The results of our experiments demonstrated an anti-inflammatory effect of PLTP deficiency as a further aspect of its proatherogenic potency. |
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