Diabetes 51:2922-2928, 2002
© 2002 by the American Diabetes Association, Inc.
Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Acetoacetate Downregulate the Expression of the ATP-Binding Cassette Transporter A1
Yoshinari Uehara1,2,3,
Thomas Engel2,
Zhengchen Li2,
Christian Goepfert1,
Stephan Rust2,
Xiaoqin Zhou2,
Claus Langer2,
Christian Schachtrup4,
Johannes Wiekowski2,
Stefan Lorkowski2,
Gerd Assmann1,2, and
Arnold von Eckardstein1,2,3
1 Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Central Laboratory, Westphalian Wilhelms-University, Münster, Germany
2 Institute of Arteriosclerosis Research, Münster, Germany
3 University Hospital Zürich, Institute of Clinical Chemistry, Zürich, Switzerland
4 Department of Biochemistry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
Low HDL cholesterol is a frequent cardiovascular risk factor in diabetes. Because of its pivotal role for the regulation of HDL plasma levels, we investigated in vivo and in vitro regulation of the ATP-binding cassette transporter A1 (ABCA1) by insulin and metabolites accumulating in diabetes. Compared with euglycemic control mice, ABCA1 gene expression was severely decreased in the liver and peritoneal macrophages of diabetic mice. Treatment with insulin restored this deficit. Incubation of cultivated HepG2 hepatocytes and RAW264.7 macrophages with unsaturated fatty acids or acetoacetate, but not with insulin, glucose, saturated fatty acids, or hydroxybutyrate, downregulated ABCA1 mRNA and protein. The suppressive effect of unsaturated fatty acids and acetoacetate became most obvious in cells stimulated with oxysterols or retinoic acid but was independent of the expression of the thereby regulated transcription factors liver-X-receptor (LXR ) and retinoid-X-receptor (RXR ), respectively. Unsaturated fatty acids and acetoacetate also reduced ABCA1 promotor activity in RAW264.7 macrophages that were transfected with a 968-bp ABCA1 promotor/luciferase gene construct. As the functional consequence, unsaturated fatty acids and acetoacetate inhibited cholesterol efflux from macrophages. Downregulation of ABCA1 by unsaturated fatty acids and acetoacetate may contribute to low HDL cholesterol and increased cardiovascular risk of diabetic patients.

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