title: Lipoprotein secretion and triglyceride stores in the heart.
abstract: The genes for apolipoprotein B and microsomal triglyceride transfer protein are expressed in mouse and human heart tissue. Why the heart would express these "lipoprotein assembly" genes has been unclear. Here we demonstrate that the beating mouse heart actually secretes spherical lipoproteins. Moreover, increased cardiac production of lipoproteins (e.g., in mice that express a human apolipoprotein B transgene) was associated with increased triglyceride secretion from the heart and decreased stores of triglycerides within the heart. Increased cardiac production of lipoproteins also reduced the pathological accumulation of triglycerides that occurs in the hearts of mice lacking long-chain acyl coenzyme A dehydrogenase. In contrast, blocking heart lipoprotein secretion (e.g., in heart-specific microsomal triglyceride transfer protein knockout mice) increased cardiac triglyceride stores. Thus, heart lipoprotein secretion helps regulate cardiac triglyceride stores and may protect the heart from the detrimental effects of surplus lipids.
authors.affiliation: Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California, San Francisco, California 94141-9100, USA. jbjorkegren@gladstone.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bjorkegren
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Véniant
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Withycombe
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Wood
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Hellerstein
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Neese
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Young
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D006801:Humans; D008055:Lipids / Q000097:blood; D008074:Lipoproteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D018345:Mice, Knockout; D008822:Mice, Transgenic; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D010477:Perfusion; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D013997:Time Factors; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D008055:Lipids; D008074:Lipoproteins; D014280:Triglycerides