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Effects of CSF-1 on Cholesterol Accumulation and Efflux by Macrophages
the Cell Biology Unit, Heart Research Institute, Sydney, Australia, and Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology and Biotechnology (D.A.H.), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Correspondence to Dr W. Jessup, Heart Research Institute, 145 Missenden Rd, Sydney, NSW 2050, Australia. E-mail w.jessup@hri.edu.au.
To assess whether human monocyte-specific colony-stimulating factor (CSF-1) might influence atherogenesis, CSF-1–induced macrophage responses that might contribute to enhanced clearance of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) or modified LDL were investigated. Careful account was made of cell preservation and increases in cell volume and protein (representing increased cell surface area, and thus endocytically active membrane) during culture with CSF-1. This permitted distinction between selective and nonspecific effects of CSF-1, the latter paralleling increases in cellular mass and volume. CSF-1 enhanced mouse peritoneal macrophage survival in vitro during exposure to lipoprotein-deficient serum with or without native LDL or acetylated LDL (Ac-LDL), as judged by maintenance of cellular DNA and cell numbers. In the presence of copper-oxidized LDL (Ox-LDL), such effects were very slight. In all conditions, CSF-1 increased cellular protein content. CSF-1 increased the uptake of both Ac-LDL and Ox-LDL calculated per culture, but this was entirely explicable by the increased cell protein, indicating that there was no selective enhancement of scavenger receptor or other routes for uptake of the modified LDLs. Similarly, CSF-1 also increased the accumulation of cholesterol and its esters nonspecifically. CSF-1 did have a marked and specific effect on the composition of cholesterol esters, decreasing the proportion of polyunsaturated esters relative to monounsaturated and saturated esters. Finally, cholesterol efflux induced by apolipoprotein A1 from Ac-LDL–loaded macrophages was not influenced by CSF-1. Thus, the enhanced macrophage catabolism of modified LDLs by CSF-1 is part of a nonspecific action on the cells but could contribute to a reduction in circulating cholesterol, observed in some situations of CSF-1 presentation in humans.
Key Words: macrophage • CSF-1 • atherosclerosis • cholesterol • modified low-density lipoprotein
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