Effects of cardiac natriuretic peptides on oxidized low-density lipoprotein- and lysophosphatidylcholine-induced human mesangial cell migration.

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Abstract —The objectives of the present study were (1) to determine whether oxidized LDL and lysophosphatidylcholine (lyso-PtdCho), a major phospholipid component of oxidized LDL, stimulate the migration of cultured human mesangial cells and (2) to investigate the possible effects on mesangial cell migration of the cardiac natriuretic peptides atrial and brain natriuretic peptide (ANP and BNP). Oxidized LDL (10 and 100 μg/mL) and lyso-PtdCho (10 −7 to 10 −5 mol/L) stimulated migration in a concentration-dependent manner. In contrast, the effects of native LDL and phosphatidylcholine were modest or nonexistent. Protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitor and downregulation of PKC activity by phorbol ester inhibited oxidized LDL– and lyso-PtdCho–induced migration. Human ANP(1-28) and human BNP-32 significantly inhibited oxidized LDL– and lyso-PtdCho–induced migration in a concentration-dependent manner. C-ANF {des-[Glu 18 ,Ser 19 ,Gly 20 ,Leu 21 ,Gly 22 ]ANP(4-23)}, a specific ligand for ANP clearance receptors, could not inhibit oxidized LDL– and lyso-PtdCho–induced migration. Inhibition by ANP and BNP of lyso-PtdCho–induced migration was paralleled by an increase in the cellular level of GMP. Oxidized LDL– and lyso-PtdCho–induced migrations were inhibited by 8-bromo-cGMP. The results suggest that oxidized LDL and lyso-PtdCho stimulate the migration of human mesangial cells, at least in part, through a PKC-dependent process and that ANP and BNP inhibit this stimulated migration, probably through a cGMP-dependent process.