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The Journal of Lipid Research, Vol. 40, 1200-1210, July 1999
Copyright © 1999 by Lipid Research, Inc.


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Oxidized low density lipoproteins induce apoptosis in PHA-activated peripheral blood mononuclear cells and in the Jurkat T-cell line

Julie Alcouffea, Sylvie Caspar-Bauguila, Virginie Garciaa, Robert Salvayrea, Mogens Thomsena, and Hervé Benoista
a INSERM U 466, Institut Louis Bugnard, CHU Rangueil, 31403 Toulouse Cedex 4, France

Correspondence to: Hervé Benoist

Oxidized low density lipoproteins (oxLDLs) and activated T lymphocytes are present in early atherosclerotic plaques. It has been shown that oxLDLs are cytotoxic to cultured vascular cells but their possible toxic action on T lymphocytes has not been described. Peripheral blood lymphocytes from healthy individuals were stimulated in vitro with the polyclonal activator phytohemagglutinin and treated with various doses of native and mildly oxidized LDLs. Low doses of oxLDLs inhibited cell growth and DNA synthesis after 48 h culture and at 200 µg apoB/ml we observed a loss of cell viability. Dead cells did not exhibit significant increase of alteration of membrane integrity (i.e., necrosis) but showed chromatin fragmentation evaluated by DNA staining with 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole and propidium iodide. This fragmentation increased with TBARS and hydroperoxide levels. The expression of early apoptosis marker Apo2.7 rose among the CD3+ T-cell population. In addition, morphological analysis showed apoptotic features (cell shrinking, nucleus condensation, and fragmentation). Study of phosphatidylserine expression using Annexin V confirmed that oxLDLs induced apoptosis in activated lymphocytes. In the Jurkat T-cell line cultured with oxLDLs, apoptotic morphological changes (condensation and nucleus fragmentation) were observed and they were accompanied by DNA fragmentation visualized by propidium iodide staining and electrophoresis showing apoptotic ladder.

These results demonstrate that mildly oxidized LDLs induce apoptosis in a part of activated and proliferating T cells. T-lymphocyte apoptosis induction in atherosclerotic lesions might contribute to the development of an unappropriate local T cell response.—Alcouffe, J., S. Caspar-Bauguil, V. Garcia, R. Salvayre, M. Thomsen, and H. Benoist. Oxidized low density lipoproteins induce apoptosis in PHA-activated peripheral blood mononuclear cells and in the Jurkat T-cell line. J. Lipid Res. 1999. 40: 1200;–1210.

Supplementary key words: activated T lymphocyte, atherosclerosis, proliferation, cell death


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