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The oxidative modification of low density lipoprotein (LDL) may play an important role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. LDL can be oxidatively modified in vitro by endothelial cells, mouse peritoneal macrophages, or copper ions. Studies using lipoxygenase inhibitors have suggested that lipoxygenase(s) is required for the cellular modification of LDL [Rankin, S. M., Parthasarathy, S. &amp; Steinberg, D. (1991) J. Lipid Res. 32, 449-456]. We have reexamined the effect of lipoxygenase inhibitors on cellular modification and found that (i) inhibitors specific for 5-lipoxygenase do not block LDL modification; (ii) inhibitors that block lipoxygenase by donating one electron to the enzyme (reductive inactivation) prevent LDL modification by cells and also modification mediated by copper ions, implying that they act as general antioxidants; (iii) the lipoxygenase inhibitor 5,8,11,14-eicosatetraynoic acid blocks 15-lipoxygenase activity in intact macrophages at concentrations 100 times less than those required to block LDL modification by macrophages; and (iv) 5,8,11,14-eicosatetraynoic acid is cytotoxic at concentrations about twice those required to prevent modification. Furthermore, macrophages and the RECB4 line of endothelial cells modify LDL with similar efficiencies despite dramatic differences in 15-lipoxygenase activity. Thus we conclude that neither 5-lipoxygenase nor 15-lipoxygenase is required for modification of LDL by cultured cells.

Cellular oxidative modification of low density lipoprotein does not require lipoxygenases.