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Expression of hormone-sensitive lipase mRNA in macrophages

JC Khoo, K Reue, D Steinberg and MC Schotz
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92039-0682.

Macrophages contain a neutral cholesteryl ester hydrolase that can be activated by cAMP-dependent protein kinase. Immunological studies strongly suggest that hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) is probably responsible for the cholesteryl ester hydrolase activity in macrophages; however, due to the very low level of expression in macrophages, it has been difficult to determine whether the macrophage cholesteryl ester hydrolase and adipose HSL are, in fact, products of the same gene. We have used the sensitive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique to demonstrate expression of HSL mRNA in resident and thioglycollate-elicited mouse peritoneal macrophages, as well as in the P388D1 mouse macrophage cell line. PCR was performed using oligonucleotide primer sequences present on adjacent exons of the mouse HSL gene to allow discrimination between products derived from HSL mRNA or genomic DNA sequences; specificity of the PCR was demonstrated by the absence of a product in liver, which does not express HSL mRNA. Northern blot analysis of poly (A)+ RNA from peritoneal macrophages with a mouse adipose HSL cDNA probe demonstrated a low abundance of mRNA of 3.2 kb, identical in size to HSL mRNA in adipose tissue. These findings, together with the results of previous studies demonstrating similarities between HSL and macrophage neutral cholesteryl ester hydrolase, strongly support the conclusion that both are products of a single gene. The development of a PCR assay for HSL mRNA may allow further study of the regulation of neutral cholesteryl ester hydrolase expression in macrophages and foam cells, and its potential role in atherogenesis.
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