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Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
The influence of Zn deficiency on the plasma level as well as the hepatic and intestinal gene expression of apolipoprotein (apo) A-I was examined in rats and hamsters. Male Sprague-Dawley rats (8 wk old) and Golden Syrian hamsters (7 wk old) were assigned to three dietary treatments: Zn adequate (ZA, 30 mg Zn/kg diet), Zn deficient (ZD, <0.5 mg Zn/kg diet), and Zn replete (ZDA, ZD animals fed the ZA diet for the last 2 days). The dietary treatments lasted for 18 days for rats or 6 wk for hamsters. For the measurement of apoA-I mRNA abundance, hamster apoA-I cDNA was cloned from the small intestine. The full-length 905-base pair cDNA shared ~80% similarity with the human, rat, and mouse apoA-I cDNAs. Hepatic and plasma Zn levels were reduced in ZD animals but normalized in ZDA rats and increased in ZDA hamsters compared with ZA animals. Zn deficiency reduced plasma apoA-I and hepatic apoA-I mRNA levels 13 and 38%, respectively, in ZD rats. The 2 days of Zn replenishment raised plasma apoA-I and hepatic apoA-I mRNA levels in ZDA rats by 34 and 28%, respectively, higher than ZA rats. Similarly, these levels were decreased by 18 and 25%, respectively, in ZD hamsters but normalized in ZDA hamsters compared with ZA hamsters. In contrast to the alterations of hepatic apoA-I mRNA levels, neither Zn deficiency nor subsequent Zn repletion produced alterations in the intestinal apoA-I mRNA abundance. Data from this study demonstrated that Zn deficiency specifically decreases hepatic apoA-I gene expression, which may at least be partly responsible for the reduction of plasma apoA-I levels.
atherosclerosis; cholesterol; cardiovascular disease
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