Cardiolipin is a normal component of human plasma lipoproteins
AUTOR(ES)
Deguchi, Hiroshi
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
Anticardiolipin (anti-CL) antibodies, diagnostic for antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, are associated with increased risks of venous and arterial thrombosis. Because CL selectively enhances activated protein C/protein S-dependent anticoagulant activities in purified systems and because CL is not known to be a normal plasma component, we searched for CL in plasma. Plasma lipid extracts [chloroform/methanol (2:1, vol/vol)] were subjected to analyses by using TLC, analytical HPLC, and MS. A plasma lipid component was purified that was indistinguishable from reference CL (M:1448). When CL in 40 fasting plasma lipid extracts (20 males, 20 females) was quantitated by using HPLC, CL (mean ± SD) was 14.9 ± 3.7 μg/ml (range 9.1 to 24.2) and CL was not correlated with phosphatidylserine (3.8 ± 1.7 μg/ml), phosphatidylethanolamine (64 ± 20 μg/ml), or choline-containing phospholipid (1,580 ± 280 μg/ml). Based on studies of fasting blood donors, CL (≥94%) was recovered in very low density, low density, and high density lipoproteins (11 ± 5.3%, 67 ± 11.0%, and 17 ± 10%, respectively), showing that the majority of plasma CL (67%) is in low density lipoprotein. Analysis of relative phospholipid contents of lipoproteins indicated that high density lipoprotein is selectively enriched in CL and phosphatidylethanolamine. These results shows that CL is a normal plasma component and suggest that the epitopes of antiphospholipid antibodies could include CL or oxidized CL in lipoproteins or in complexes with plasma proteins (e.g., β2-glycoprotein I, prothrombin, protein C, or protein S) or with platelet or endothelial surface proteins.
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