Genes within the MHC region have a dramatic influence on radiation-enhanced atherosclerosis in mice.
Genes within the MHC region have a dramatic influence on radiation-enhanced atherosclerosis in mice.
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DOI:
10.1161/circgenetics.110.957449
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2010-10
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Matsumoto AH
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Shi W;Zhang Z;Chen MH;Angle JF;Matsumoto AH
C3H/HeJ (C3H) mice develop much smaller atherosclerotic lesions than C57BL/6 (B6) mice when deficient in apolipoprotein E (apoE−/−) or fed an atherogenic diet. The two strains differ in H2 haplotypes with B6 having H2b and C3H having H2k. C3.SW-H2b/SnJ (C3.SW) is a congenic strain of C3H/HeJ in which H2k is replaced with H2b. We performed bone marrow transplantation and found that atherosclerosis-resistant C3.SW.apoE−/− mice reconstituted with bone marrow from either C3.SW.apoE−/− or B6.apoE−/− mice after lethal irradiation developed significantly larger atherosclerotic lesions than B6.apoE−/− mice receiving identical treatments and much larger lesions than C3H.apoE−/− mice reconstituted with syngeneic bone marrow. For syngeneic transplantation, C3.SW.apoE−/− mice exhibited a 21-fold increase in lesion size over C3H.apoE−/− mice (152,800±21,937 vs. 7,060±2,290 μm2/section) and a near 4-fold increase over B6.apoE−/− mice (40,529±4,675 μm2/section). C3.SW.apoE−/− mice reconstituted with syngeneic marrow exhibited enhanced lesion formation relative to those reconstituted with B6 marrow (152,800±21,937 vs. 107,000±9,374 μm2/section; P=0.067). Sublethal irradiation led to a 6-fold increase of lesion size in C3.SW.apoE−/− mice (9,795±2,804 vs. 1,550±607 μm2/section; P=0.008). Wild-type C3.SW mice reconstituted with apoE+/+ or apoE−/− bone marrow developed significantly larger atherosclerotic lesions than C3H mice receiving identical treatments on an atherogenic diet. These results indicate that gene(s) within the H2 region have a dramatic impact on radiation-enhanced atherosclerosis and their effect is conveyed partially through bone marrow-derived cells.