Investigation of the distribution and changes of VLDLR Subtype in fibrotic cardiac muscles

Abstract

Very low-density lipoprotein receptor (VLDLR) is the major receptor with which cells can uptake the triacylglycerol from blood. It is divided into two subtypes according to presence of O-linked sugar domain located in the VLDLR receptor immediately outside of the membrane. Type I VLDLR contains the O-link domain, while type II has no such domain. The type I VLDLR are mainly found on the surface of human myocardial cells. The result of our quantitative polymerase chain reaction on the normal and fibrotic cardiac muscles showed that both subtypes and expression level of VLDLR on the myocardial cell surface did not vary significantly between the normal and the fibrotic cardiac muscles despite the presence of malfunction due to fibrosis. This finding suggests that fibrosis doesn’t exert significant influence on the subtype and the expression of VLDLR on the surface of myocardial cells. Such inconsistence with the changes found in other fibrotic tissues is awaiting further studies.

Keywords

myocardial cells / cardiac muscle fibrosis / very low-density lipoprotein receptor (VLDLR)

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