title: Oleic acid modulates the post-translational glycosylation of macrophage ApoE to increase its secretion.
abstract: There has been increasing interest in a potential role for fatty acids in adversely affecting organismal substrate utilization and contributing to the cardiovascular complications in insulin resistance. Fatty acids have already been implicated in regulating the expression of a number of genes in resident cells of the vessel wall. In the current studies, we evaluated a potential role for fatty acids in the regulation of macrophage apoE expression. Incubation in oleic acid increased the synthesis and secretion of apoE by human monocyte-derived macrophages. Part of this stimulation was mediated at a post-translational locus. Oleic acid increased the secretion of apoE from macrophages that constitutively expressed a human apoE3 cDNA. Incubation in palmitic acid decreased apoE secretion from these cells. The effect of oleic acid on apoE secretion could not be accounted for by the known effect of fatty acid on cellular sterol, because incubation in oleic acid did not suppress the degradation of nascent apoE. Incubation in oleic acid for at least 6 h was required to observe an effect on apoE secretion. Oleic acid altered the glycosylation pattern of cellular and secreted apoE, with a loss of the most heavily sialylated isoform. Oleic acid had no effect on the glycosylation of interleukin 6 secreted from macrophages. Elimination of apoE glycosylation, by substitution of threonine 194 with alanine, eliminated oleic acid-mediated stimulation of apoE secretion. These results indicate that oleic acid increases apoE secretion from macrophages at a locus involving post-translational glycosylation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA.
authors.forename: Zhi Hua
authors.initials: ZH
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: DeSheng
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Theodore
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mazzone
mesh_terms: D001057:Apolipoproteins E / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D002458:Cell Fractionation; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D006031:Glycosylation; D006801:Humans; D015850:Interleukin-6 / Q000378:metabolism; D008264:Macrophages / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism*; D019301:Oleic Acid / Q000494:pharmacology*; D019308:Palmitic Acid / Q000494:pharmacology; D020033:Protein Isoforms / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D011499:Protein Processing, Post-Translational; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D001057:Apolipoproteins E; D015850:Interleukin-6; D020033:Protein Isoforms; D019301:Oleic Acid; D019308:Palmitic Acid