Human apolipoprotein A-I in atherosclerosis. The role of oxidation or natural variants synergizing its dysfunction

GISONNO, ROMINA; DÍAZ LUDOVICO, IVO; ROSÚ, SILVANA; CORTEZ, MARIA FERNANDA; GONZALEZ, MARINA; GARDA, HORACIO; GORGOJO, JUAN PABLO; RODRIGUEZ, MARIA EUGENIA; TRICERRI, MARIA ALEJANDRA; RAMELLA, NAHUEL

Encuentro Virtual

Congreso; Reunión De Sociedades De Biociencias 2020. LXV Reunión Anual de la Sociedad Argentina de Investigación Clínica (SAIC); 2020

Sociedad Argentina de Inmunología

Oxidation of human high density lipoprotein and its major protein apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) was proposed to cause their failure to protect against cardiovascular disease. However, multiple and complex events might contribute to the breakdown of this protein to fulfill its protective role. To set light on this topic, we took advantage of the study of a natural variant with a deletion of the lysine 107 (K107del) associated with atherosclerosis and amyloidosis. We oxidized the variants by controlled incubation with H2O2 and determined structural and biological parameters by biophysical and biological approaches.Both variants oxidized under these conditions preserved or even induced an increase in the lipid clearance with respect to untreated proteins (20 % with p ≤ 0.05), and decreased the yield of the physiological dimeric conformations. Following 30-day incubation at 37oC K107del but not Wt acquired a well-defined fibrillar conformation which is the main signature of the amyloid pathology. These conformations (but not freshly folded proteins) activated neutrophils into the formation of elastase traps (NETs) (p