Elevation of cyclic AMP in human skin fibroblasts results in increased capacity for HDL binding
1996
Abstract Pre-incubation of cultured human skin fibroblasts, lung fibroblasts and vascular smooth muscle cells, for 24 h with cAMP-elevating agents resulted in a significant increase (40–60%) of the cells' capacity to bind HDL. The increase was due to enhancement of the maximal binding capacity of a high affinity saturable site which binds HDL in preference to LDL. The effect was dependent upon the concentration of the cAMP-elevating agents and required more than 4 h to become evident. Cyclic AMP-mediated elevation of HDL binding occurred in cells with access to an exogenous source of cholesterol, which could be the physiological donor LDL or non-lipoprotein in origin. The observed effects were not subsequent to changes in cellular balance of cholesterol to cholesterol ester and were not due to inhibition of cellular proliferation.
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