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Cardiovascular Research Advance Access originally published online on October 19, 2007
Cardiovascular Research 2008 77(1):211-220; doi:10.1093/cvr/cvm045
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2007. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Low-density lipoproteins impair migration of human coronary vascular smooth muscle cells and induce changes in the proteomic profile of myosin light chain

Teresa Padró1, Esther Peña1, Maisa García-Arguinzonis1, Vicenta Llorente-Cortes1 and Lina Badimon1,2,*

1 Cardiovascular Research Center, CSIC-ICCC, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Av. S. Antoni M. Claret,167, 08025 Barcelona, Spain
2 Cardiovascular Research Chair ‘Catalana Occidente’, UAB, Barcelona, Spain

* Corresponding author. Tel: +34 93 556 5880; fax: +34 93 556 5559. E-mail address: lbadimon{at}csic-iccc.org

Aims: High-risk atheromatous plaques contain significant extra- and intracellular lipid deposits and very low smooth muscle cell numbers in the intima. However, the mechanisms inducing vessel wall remodelling and high-risk plaque composition are unknown. Low-density lipoproteins (LDLs) infiltrate the vessel wall and become retained and aggregated (agLDL) in the intima by binding to extracellular matrix proteoglycans. The cellular responses triggered by agLDL are not fully understood. This study was designed to investigate the effects of agLDL on vascular remodelling and repair, specifically studying human coronary vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) functions.

Methods and results: Using a wound repair VSMC model system, we have shown that agLDL significantly impair cell migration. Proteomic analysis revealed a differential phenotypic pattern of myosin light chain and lower levels of phosphorylated myosin regulatory light chain (P-MRLC) in agLDL-exposed VSMC. LDL also induced changes in the subcellular localization of P-MRLC, with dephosphorylation strongly evident on the front edge of agLDL-treated migrating cells. PMA, a strong inducer of myosin light chain (MLC) phosphorylation, significantly reduced the effects of agLDL in VSMC migration. Inhibition of MLC kinase with ML9 did not affect MRLC dephosphorylation already induced by agLDL.

Conclusion: Our results indicate that LDLs impair human VSMC migration and wound repair after injury. agLDL, and to a lesser extent nLDL, induce dephosphorylation of MRLC and striking changes in the subcellular localization of P-MRLC, a cytoskeleton protein involved in VSMC migration kinetics.

KEYWORDS Lipoproteins; Smooth muscle cell; Migration; Myosin; Proteomics

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