Human Reproduction Update, Vol.4, No.4 pp.420-429, 1998
© European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology 1998; all rights reserved
Diet, plasma lipoproteins and experimental atherosclerosis in baboons (Papio sp.)
Department of Physiology and Medicine, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, PO Box 760549, San Antonio, TX 78245-0549, USA z Corresponding author e-mail: kush@icarus.sfbr.org
Abstract
Diet-induced hyperlipidaemia in baboons is similar to that in humans. As in humans, the ratio between low density lipoprotein (LDL) and high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol is a major determinant of atherosclerosis. Baboons, like humans and other non-human primates, vary in their lipaemic responses to dietary lipids. By selective breeding based on variability in plasma and lipoprotein cholesterol response to diet, lines of baboons with high and low responses of various lipoproteins have been developed. Genetic analyses suggest that lipoprotein patterns in responses to dietary cholesterol and fat are heritable. Metabolic and molecular studies of high and low LDL and HDL cholesterol responses to dietary lipids have suggested that different mechanisms regulate plasma LDL cholesterol on the chow and on the high cholesterol-high fat (HCHF) diet. On the chow diet, plasma LDL cholesterol levels are positively associated with cholesterol absorption and negatively associated with hepatic LDL receptor levels and, thus, cholesterol absorption and LDL receptors seem to regulate plasma LDL cholesterol levels. However, when the animals consume a human-like fat- and cholesterol-enriched diet, plasma LDL cholesterol levels are not associated with either cholesterol absorption or hepatic LDL receptor mRNA levels, but are negatively associated with plasma 27-hydroxycholesterol concentrations, hepatic sterol 27-hydroxylase activity, and mRNA levels. Hepatic sterol 27-hydroxylase activity and mRNA levels are induced by dietary cholesterol and fat in low responding baboons more than in high responding baboons. Thus, the ability to induce sterol 27-hydroxylase determines the LDL cholesterol response in baboons. High HDL response baboons often have high levels of HDL1 in their plasma. Our studies suggest that the N-terminal fragment of apo C-I with 38 amino acids and a molecular weight of 4 kDa acts as a cholesteryl ester transfer inhibitor peptide in high HDL1 baboons. The inhibitor peptide associates with apo A-1 in HDL to produce a modified apo A-1 protein with a molecular weight of 31 kDa. The inhibitor peptide is a gene product and the presence of this peptide produces an antiatherogenic high HDL1 phenotype.
Key words: apolipoproteins/baboon/diet/lipoprotein metabolism
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