Novel vascular molecule involved in monocyte adhesion to aortic endothelium in models of atherogenesis. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Adhesion of monocytes to the endothelium in lesion-prone areas is one of the earliest events in fatty streak formation leading to atherogenesis. The molecular basis of increased monocyte adhesion is not fully characterized. We have identified a novel vascular monocyte adhesion-associated protein, VMAP-1, that plays a role in adhesion of monocytes to activated endothelium. Originally selected for its ability to block binding of a mouse monocyte-like cell line (WEHI78/24) to cytokine- or LPS-stimulated cultured mouse endothelial cells in vitro, antiVMAP-1 mAb LM151 cross-reacts with rabbit endothelium and blocks binding of human monocytes to cultured rabbit aortic endothelial cells stimulated with minimally modified low density lipoprotein, thought to be a physiologically relevant atherogenic stimulus. Most importantly, LM151 prevents adhesion of normal monocytes and monocytoid cells to intact aortic endothelium from cholesterol-fed rabbits in an ex vivo assay. VMAP-1 is a 50-kD protein. Immunohistology of vessels reveals focal constitutive expression in aorta and other large vessels. VMAP-1 is thus a novel vascular adhesion-associated protein that appears to play a critical role in monocyte adhesion to aortic endothelial cells in atherogenesis in vivo.

publication date

  • June 16, 1997

Research

keywords

  • Arteriosclerosis
  • Cell Adhesion Molecules
  • Endothelium, Vascular
  • Monocytes

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC2196357

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0030918818

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1084/jem.185.12.2069

PubMed ID

  • 9182678

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 185

issue

  • 12