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Roles and origins of leukocyte lipid bodies: proteomic and ultrastructural studies

Hsiao-Ching Wan*,1, Rossana C. N. Melo*,{dagger},1, Zhoung Jin*, Ann M. Dvorak{ddagger} and Peter F. Weller*,2

Departments of
* Medicine and

{ddagger} Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; and

{dagger} Department of Biology, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, UFJF, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil

2Correspondence: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, DA-617, 330 Brookline Ave., Boston, MA 02215, USA. E-mail: pweller{at}bidmc.harvard.edu


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Lipid bodies (LBs), multifunctional organelles present in most eukaryotic cells, are sites of eicosanoid formation in leukocytes; but little is known about the composition of leukocyte LBs or the biogenesis and internal structures of LBs from mammalian cells. Proteomic analyses of LBs purified from human monocytic U937 cells detected, common to LBs in other cells, proteins involved in cholesterol and triglyceride metabolism, Rab GTPases, and many membrane and endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-associated proteins. Newly lipid body (LB)-associated proteins included MRP-14, potentially involved in arachidonate transport, and ribosomal subunit proteins and translation regulatory proteins. Ultrastructurally, in U937 cells as well as human neutrophils and eosinophils, ribosomes are attached to and distributed within LBs, and LBs contain extensive ER-like membranes. The presence of ribosomes, ER-like membranes and many membrane-associated and ER luminal proteins within LBs, supports a new model by which enveloped ER-membranes and domains form LBs and indicates that LBs may be sites of protein synthesis.—Wan, H-C., Melo, R. C. N., Jin, Z., Dvorak, A. M., Weller, P. F. Roles and origins of leukocyte lipid bodies: proteomic and ultrastructural studies.


Key Words: eosinophils • neutrophils • lipid bodies • lipid droplets • endoplasmic reticulum • U937 cells


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LIPID BODIES (LBS), ALSO KNOWNas lipid droplets, are increasingly recognized as dynamic organelles (1 , 2) . In adipocytes and steroidogenic testicular, ovarian, and adrenal cells, LBs were recognized early for their roles in the storage and metabolism of fatty acids and cholesterol. The central core of LBs contains triglycerides. Lipid body (LB)-stored cholesterol in steroidogenic cells is a synthetic precursor of steroid hormones, and in other cells is important in atherogenic and other activities of cholesterol (3) . LBs, rich in triglycerides and cholesterol (1) , are surrounded not by a typical bilayer membrane but by a monolayer of phospholipids (4) . Specific LB-associated proteins of the perilipin, adipophilin, TIP47 (PAT) family, perilipins, adipophilin, tail-interacting protein of 47 kDa (TIP47), and S3–12 (5 6 7 8) are involved in LB triglyceride metabolism (9) .

Proteomic studies of LBs from Chinese hamster ovary K2 cells (10) , squamous carcinoma A431 cells (11) , hepatoma cells (12 , 13) , and 3T3-L1 adipocytes (14) provided broader insights into the functioning of LBs. For instance, recognition that several Rab GTPase proteins are associated with LBs (10 11 12 , 14 , 15) suggests roles for these LB-associated proteins in membrane trafficking or other regulated processes. Indeed, LBs have more roles than simply as depots of neutral lipids (16) . While LBs are assumed to be derived from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), critical aspects of LBs, including their internal structure and mode of derivation from ER membranes, have been unsettled. Although PAT proteins and caveolin were initially immunofluorescently localized to circumferential surfaces of LBs, recent freeze-fracture immunogold electron microscopy (EM) revealed that caveolin-1 in smooth muscle cells (17) and TIP47 and adipophilin (16 , 18) in macrophages are present within LBs and localized to freeze-fractured lamellae within LB cores (16 17 18) .

LBs have additional functions in leukocytes. Leukocyte LBs form in macrophages, neutrophils, and eosinophils associated with infectious and inflammatory responses (19) . Specific pathogen- and ligand-initiated, receptor-mediated pathways activate intracellular signaling that leads to enhanced LB formation. For instance, Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin induces TLR2-mediated formation of LBs in macrophages (20) , platelet-activating factor through its receptor induces LB formation in neutrophils and eosinophils (21 , 22) , and the chemokines eotaxin (CCL11) and RANTES (CCL5), acting via CCR3 receptors, stimulate LB formation in eosinophils (23) . Leukocyte LBs contain esterified arachidonate (24 , 25) and possess enzymes to liberate [e.g., cytosolic phospholipase (cPL) A2] (26) and metabolize [e.g., 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO), prostaglandin H synthases (PGHSs, cyclooxygenases), and leukotriene (LT) C4 synthase] (20 , 22 , 27 , 28) arachidonate to synthesize eicosanoids. Increased leukocyte LB numbers have correlated with enhanced production of PGHS (PGE2) and 5-LO (LTB4 and LTC4) -derived eicosanoids (21 , 22 , 29) . Moreover, as evidenced by immunolocalizations of newly synthesized eicosanoids, LBs are specific sites of de novo formation of LTC4 and PGE2 in leukocytes (20 , 23) . Roles for LBs in eicosanoid formation even in nonleukocyte cells have been indicated. For instance, cPLA2, PGHS-2, and microsomal PGE synthase were localized to LBs in human fetal epithelium and fibroblasts (30) , and PGHS-1 and -2 were localized to LBs in the corpus luteum (31) . In addition, neutrophil LBs rich in arachidonate are motile and transiently associate with phagosomes, potentially providing arachidonate to activate phagosome-associated NADPH oxidase (32) .

Cytokines and signaling kinases are present in leukocyte LBs (26 , 33 34 35) . Although immunofluorescent localizations of PAT proteins to surfaces of LBs underdetect PAT proteins within LBs (18) , immunolocalizations of eicosanoid-forming enzymes to LBs have consistently documented labelings within LBs (22 , 23) . By immunogold EM, 5-LO localized throughout eosinophil LBs (22) . Moreover, EM has at times revealed honeycomb-like internal ultrastructures within eosinophil LBs (22) , and transmembrane spanning proteins, such as LTC4 synthase, were localized throughout eosinophil LBs (22) . Thus, at least in leukocytes, LBs likely contain as yet undefined membranous structures and membrane-associated proteins within LB cores.

Given the broader functional roles recognized for LBs in leukocytes, we used human monocyte U937 line cells to evaluate proteins associated with isolated LBs doubly purified by subcellular fractionation. We complemented proteomic analyses of isolated LBs with transmission EM studies of LBs in U937 cells as well as native blood-derived human eosinophils and neutrophils. We find that leukocyte LBs share a number of proteins associated with LBs in other cells and also contain proteins involved in protein translation, a finding corroborated by EM studies showing ribosomes associated with and within leukocyte LBs, contain ER luminal proteins and possess membranous internal structures within LB cores. These findings support a novel model for the formation of LBs from the ER.


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Purification of lipid body proteins
Human U937 cells (CRL-1593.2, American Type Culture Collection; Manassas, VA, USA) cultured at ≤2 x 105 cells/ml overnight in RPMI 1640 medium, 10% FBS, 100 U/ml penicillin, 100 µg/ml streptomycin (37°C, 5% CO2) contained numerous LBs. Disrupted U937 cells were subjected to two cycles of subcellular fractionation for isolation of buoyant LBs by modifications of prior methods (24) . Cells were resuspended at 108 cells/ml in cold disruption buffer (25 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.4, 5 mM ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, 1 mM ethylene glycol-bis-tetraacetic acid, 0.2 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, 50 µg/ml N{alpha}-p-tosyl-L-lysine-chloromethyl ketone, 1 µg/ml leupeptin, 1 µg/ml pepstatin A, and 1 µg/ml aprotinin). After nitrogen cavitation (800 psi, 10 min, 4°C), disrupted cells were mixed with sucrose to a concentration of 0.54 M sucrose. Nuclei and intact cells were removed by centrifugation (1000 g, 30 min, 4°C). The cavitate was overlaid with 0.27, 0.135, and 0 M sucrose solutions and subjected to ultracentrifugation (150,500 g, 3–4 h, 4°C). Cytosolic and buoyant LB-containing fractions were harvested from the 0.54 M sucrose and uppermost layers, respectively.

To minimize contamination of LBs, initially isolated LB fractions were adjusted to contain 0.35 M sucrose and 0.15 M NaCl and placed under layers of 0/0.135 M/0.27 M sucrose solutions for a second ultracentrifugation. As controls, initially isolated cytosolic fractions containing equal amounts of protein were likewise placed under the same layered sucrose solutions. After ultracentrifugations as above, sucrose-free upper layers containing buoyant LBs or control proteins were collected. Fractions from multiple isolations derived from >2 x 109 cells were pooled and mixed with chloroform and methanol at volume ratios of 1:1.25:2.5 (sample:chloroform:methanol). Proteins were pelleted by centrifugation, resolved on 4–12% NuPAGE SDS reducing gels (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA), and stained with GelCode Blue (Pierce, Rockford, IL, USA). Purity of doubly isolated LBs was ascertained. Specific organelle markers—nuclear lamin B, endosomal annexin VI, and lysosomal cathepsin D—were not detectable in isolated LB fractions by Western blot, nor were enzyme activities of cytosolic lactate dehydrogenase and microsomal sulfatase C.

MS/LS analyses
Six protein-containing zones from doubly isolated LB fractions, excised from gels, were subjected to trypsin digestion (36) . Digested samples reconstituted in 5% acetonitrile, 0.005% heptafluorobutyric acid, 0.4% acetic acid were loaded on nanoscale C18 reverse-phase HPLC capillary columns (37) . Peptides, eluted with increasing concentrations of 95% acetonitrile, 0.005% heptafluorobutyric acid, 0.4% acetic acid were subjected to electrospray ionization and entered into a LCQ DECA ion trap mass spectrometer (ThermoFinnigan, San Jose, CA, USA). Peptide sequences were determined by matching protein or translated nucleotide databases with acquired fragmentation patterns by the Sequest program (ThermoFinnigan). Proteins were identified based on two or, more commonly, multiple peptide sequences (except where noted in Table 1 ).Potential membrane insertion domains were assessed through TMAP prediction (http://bioinfo.limbo.ifm.liu.SE./tmap) based on single sequence alignment (38) .


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  		Table 1. U937 monocyte lipid body-associated proteins identified by MS/LS


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  		Table 1A. (continued)

Electron microscopy
U937 cells
Cultured U937 cells were fixed in 1% paraformaldehyde/1.25% glutaraldehyde, processed for EM and examined as detailed before (39) . Seventy-five electron micrographs ranging from 8000x to 75,000x were evaluated.

Neutrophil and eosinophil isolation and stimulation
As approved by the Committee on Clinical Investigation, blood granulocytes were isolated and eosinophils were purified by negative selection as described (39) . Eosinophils (106 cells/ml) were stimulated with recombinant human eotaxin or RANTES (100 ng/ml, R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN, USA) or medium alone (RPMI 1640, 0.1% ovalbumin) at 37°C for 1 h. Cells were processed for EM, as above.


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U937 lipid body protein composition
To minimize contamination, initially isolated LB fractions were resuspended in higher concentration (0.15M NaCl) salt and reisolated from buoyant fractions on second ultracentrifugations. The stained protein profiles of doubly isolated LBs (Fig. 1 , lane 1) differed both from those of initial cytosolic fractions (Fig. 1 , lane 3) and from control cytosolic fractions that were subjected to second subcellular fractionations (Fig. 1 , lane 2) (the latter contained 50–75 kDa proteins identified as contaminating cytokeratins). From the six excised lane 1 zones, MS/LS analyses identified proteins listed in Table 1 .


Figure 1
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  		Figure 1. Protein profiles of LB and cytosolic fractions isolated from U937 cells. Samples were resolved on SDS-PAGE gels and protein stained, as described in Materials and Methods. After two sequential subcellular fractionations, lane 1 contained LB proteins in uppermost buoyant fractions of doubly isolated LBs whereas lane 2 contained proteins from uppermost subcellular fractions isolated from second control fractionations in which initial cytosolic fractions were subjected to a second ultracentrifugation. Lane 3 contained proteins from LB-depleted cytosolic fractions after the first subcellular fractionation. Six zones (arrows) from lane 1 were subjected to proteomic analyses of LB-associated proteins. Lane 1 LB proteins were reproducible in three different LB purifications.

U937 cell LB-associated proteins included many associated with LBs in other cells, such as the LB proteins, adipophilin, TIP47, CGI-49, and CGI-58, various enzymes involved in cholesterol, triglyceride, and retinyl lipid synthesis, and ER chaperone/folding proteins (heat shock protein 70, BiP, calnexin, and protein disulfide isomerase P5) (Table 1) . Two cytoskeletal proteins, tubulin-{alpha} and actin, previously associated with LBs, were identified (Table 1) . Several proteins potentially involved in vesicular trafficking were identified, including Ras-related Rab family member proteins (Table 1) , previously associated with LBs, as well as three (VAT-1, transmembrane traffic protein, and GTP binding protein SAR1a) not known to be associated with LBs. In addition, other proteins (Table 1 , see Miscellaneous) were identified, including some not yet recognized to be associated with LBs, S100 calcium binding protein A9, hypothetical proteins FLJ21820 and MGC10084, and HSPC028.

Novel findings for LB-associated proteins were several ribosomal component proteins and proteins involved in regulation of ribosomal protein translation. Ribosomal proteins were 60 S acidic ribosomal protein, 60 S ribosomal proteins L11 and L23, and 40 S ribosomal protein S20; translational control proteins were eukaryotic elongation factors 1-{alpha}, 1-{gamma}, and 4A-1 (Table 1) .

Several proteins mediating glycosylation and often associated with the ER were identified (Table 1) , including two not previously associated with LBs: oligosaccharyl transferase subunit and dehydrodolichyl diphosphate synthase. These latter proteins are membrane-associated, and of the varied proteins identified in U937 LB fractions, more than half were recognized as membrane-spanning proteins or contained predicted membrane-inserting domains (Table 1) .

Ultrastructural studies of lipid bodies in situ
Findings of ribosomal and ER-related proteins associated with isolated U937 LBs and the identification of many membrane-inserting proteins with LBs, that nominally possess only a delimiting phospholipid monolayer (4) and lack heretofore identified internal membranes, led us to examine the ultrastructure of LBs. As we found with isolated eosinophil LBs (24) , the inherent buoyancy of isolated U937 LBs precluded their sedimentation into pellets amenable for transmission EM. Thus, we used EM of intact U937 cells, neutrophils, and eosinophils to examine the ultrastructure of LBs.

U937 cell lipid bodies in situ
LBs within U937 cells appeared to be composed of amorphous lightly dense core material (Fig. 2 A, B) and frequently showed an electron-dense rim devoid of a bilayer membrane (Fig. 2A , arrowheads), features typical of LBs in other leukocytes (40 , 41) . U937 LBs were frequently closely associated with the ER. LBs were partially (Fig. 2B, C ) or completely (Fig. 2D ) surrounded by ER cisternae, with some clear attachments between them (Fig. 2B, C , arrows). Cytoskeletal filaments were inserted onto LBs (Fig. 2E, F , arrowheads) or encapsulated these structures (Fig. 2F , arrows).


Figure 2
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  		Figure 2. Morphology of lipid bodies (LBs) and their intracellular interactions in U937 cells. A) LBs showed a light-dense core with an electron-dense rim (arrowheads) or an ill-defined periphery. B–D) LB-endoplasmic reticulum (ER) interactions. ER partially (B, C) or entirely (D) surrounded LBs, with areas of clear attachment (B, C, arrows). E, F) Cytoskeleton filaments inserted onto (arrowheads) or encapsulated (arrows) LBs. Cultured cells were processed for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) as described (39) . m, mitochondrion. Scale bar, 500 nm (A–C), 480 nm (D, F), 360 nm (E).

Ribosomes are associated with lipid bodies
Associations between LBs and ribosomes were evident in U937 cells. Free ribosomes (Fig. 3 A, arrowheads) or rough ER profiles (Fig. 3A ) were lining or attached to borders of LBs. Moreover, ribosomes or ribosome subunit-like particles were present within the lipid-rich cores of LBs (Fig. 3A, B , arrows). To further ascertain associations of ribosomes with leukocyte LBs, we studied human blood-derived granulocytes, neutrophils, and eosinophils by EM. These granulocytes were chosen for three reasons: 1) they are native leukocytes (in contrast to the U937 cell line), 2) they can contain prominent LBs, and 3) they exhibit differential LB osmiophilic staining when examined by EM. Eosinophil LBs characteristically are very electron-dense whereas neutrophil LBs are more electron lucent (40) , like those in U937 cells.


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  		Figure 3. Ribosomes are associated with lipid bodies (LB) within U937 cells. A, B) Clusters of ribosomes were attached to the LB periphery (A, arrowheads) or distributed inside LBs (A, B, arrows). Note that profiles of the rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) (circles) interact with or surround LBs. Scale bar, 400 nm (A), 500 nm (B).

Clear associations between LBs and ribosomes were observed in both neutrophils and eosinophils. Free ribosomes were lining or attached to LB borders, often with heavy clusters of ribosomes (Fig. 4 A). In addition, ribosome-like particles were present within LBs (Fig. 4Ab ). In both granulocytes and U937 cells, some LBs devoid of associated ribosomes were observed concomitantly with heavily ribosome-associated LBs (Fig. 4Ab, B ). To provide additional evidence that LBs interact with ribosomes, eosinophils were stimulated with eotaxin or RANTES and examined by EM. Eosinophils activated by eotaxin or RANTES in vitro, like those recruited during inflammatory processes in vivo, exhibit morphological changes associated with activation, including the induction of new LB formation (23) . Stimulated eosinophils contained large LBs with ribosomes not only attached to the circumferential surfaces of LBs, but also spread within their core contents (Fig. 4C ). Ribosomes were also associated with ER cisternae wrapping around LBs (Fig. 4Cb , arrows). Thus, EM studies of U937 cells and two human leukocytes provided evidence of intimate associations of ribosomes around and within LBs, in support of proteomic findings of ribosomal subunit proteins in isolated U937 LBs.


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  		Figure 4. Lipid bodies (LBs) from human blood leukocytes are sites for ribosomes. Aa) In resting neutrophils, electron-lucent LBs (box) exhibited heavy ribosome clusters in both periphery and core. Ab) Higher magnification of the boxed area. B) An endoplasmic reticulum (ER) -encircled LB from the same sample does not show internal ribosomes. Ca) Eotaxin-stimulated eosinophil shows a large electron-dense LB (box) with clusters of attached ribosomes at its periphery (arrows in panel Cb). Note the presence of ribosomes in the LB core and the clear LB interaction with the surrounding rough ER. Panel Cb corresponds to the boxed area in panel Ca. Eosinophil specific granules with content losses (*) and eosinophil sombrero vesicles (EoSVs) (arrowheads), morphological concomitants of eosinophil activation (39) , are indicated respectively in panels Ca and Cb. n, nucleus; gr, granule. Scale bar, 440 nm (Aa), 300 nm (Ab, B, Cb), 1 µM (Ca).

Internal structure of leukocyte lipid bodies
EM of U937 LBs at times demonstrated subtle variegated inhomogeneous densities within LB cores (e.g., Fig. 2D ) and at times indicated membranous structures extending within LB cores (Fig. 5 A). Such findings, while suggestive, did not clearly reveal internal membranes in LBs. In contrast, EM of LBs from eosinophils provided clear evidence of extensive networks of membranous structures within LBs in both resting (Fig. 5B ) and agonist-stimulated eosinophils (Fig. 5C ). The same complex membranous structures present within LBs (Fig. 5B, C ) were also visualized outside of and adjacent to LBs (Fig. 5D, E , arrows). Typical ER cisternae were also revealed within LBs (Fig. 5Ba, Bb , arrowheads).


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  		Figure 5. Internal structure of lipid bodies (LBs) in human U937 cells and blood leukocytes. A) A large and electron-lucent U937 LB shows internal membranous structures (arrowheads). Ba) An organized membranous network (highlighted in red in panel Bb) is clearly seen within an osmiophilic eosinophil LB. Note that typical ER cisternae (arrowheads) are seen as part of another LB. C) Part of an elaborate membranous structure (circle) is revealed within a LB. D, E) The same membranous network (arrows) is observed in close apposition to other apparently homogenous LBs. Arrowheads in panel E indicate a classical ER cisternum wrapping around LB. Eosinophils were stimulated with RANTES (C, E) or eotaxin (D), or medium alone (B). Cells were processed for EM as described (39) . Scale bars, 600 nm (A, C), 330 nm (B), 800 nm (D), 300 nm (E).


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LBs in diverse prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells are multifunctional organelles (1) , although the origins and functions of LBs in leukocytes have not been fully considered in analyses of LBs (2) . In leukocytes, LBs are organelles at which phospholipid-esterified substrate arachidonate, arachidonate-liberating phospholipases, and eicosanoid-synthesizing PGHSs and 5-LO are colocalized to provide for the focal formation of eicosanoids (20 , 23 , 42) . In nonleukocytic cells, Chinese hamster ovary cells (10) , squamous carcinoma cells (11) , hepatoma cells (12 , 13) , and 3T3-L1 adipocytes (14) , proteomic analyses of their LBs have revealed a diversity of LB-associated proteins. In the present study, we used human U937 monocytic cells for proteomic analyses of isolated LBs and combined these analyses with EM of both U937 cells and human blood leukocytes. Together, these investigations yielded insights into the protein compositions, organellar interrelationships, internal membranous structures, and ER origins of leukocyte LBs.

Proteomic analyses of U937 LBs, doubly purified by subcellular fractionation to minimize contamination, identified many proteins found with LBs as well as other proteins not previously associated with LBs. U937 LBs contained four well-recognized LB-associated proteins: adipophilin, TIP47 (mannose-6-phosphate receptor binding protein), CGI-49, and CGI-58. PAT family proteins, including adipophilin and TIP47, pervade LB cores in other cells (18) , including macrophages (16) ; their functions in lipid metabolism in other cells have been reviewed (9) . CGI-58 may be involved in fatty acid transfer from triglycerides to phospholipids (10) , and its genetic defect underlies the Chanarin-Dorman syndrome characterized by accumulations of triglyceride-rich LBs in multiple cells, including leukocytes (43) . CGI-49 is of uncertain function.

Other proteins common to U937 LBs and LBs of other cells were many related to lipid metabolism (Table 1) , including the synthesis, storage, utilization, and degradation of cholesterol esters, triglycerides, and retinyl esters. Two cytoskeletal proteins, previously localized to LBs, actin and tubulin-{alpha}, may have pertinence to the cytoskeletal insertions into U937 cells demonstrable by EM (Fig. 2E, F ) as well as the recognized capacity for neutrophil LBs to exhibit rapid intracytoplasmic movement and kiss and run interactions with phagosomes (32) .

The findings of Ras-related Rab proteins in prior proteomic studies of LBs (10 , 11 , 13 14 15 , 44) were recapitulated with the identification of Rabs 1A, 1B, 7, 10, 11, 14, and 18 in isolated U937 LBs (Table 1) . Other proteins, likely involved in vesicular trafficking, found with U937 LBs included some not previously associated with LBs: VAT-1 (synaptic vesicle membrane protein) homologue, SNAP29 (vesicle membrane fusion protein), transmembrane traffic protein, GTP binding protein SAR 1a, and Rap-1a. Human VAT-1 homologue is a member of medium-chain dehydrogenases/reductases family (45) . Protein p22, a calcium binding protein, may mediate constitutive membrane traffic (46) , have roles in microtubule and ER organization (47) , and interact with microtubules and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (48) , the latter also identified in U937 LBs (Table 1) . AMID, an apoptosis-inducing factor/homologous mitochondrion-associated inducer of death, which lacks a mitochondrial localization signal, was previously localized to the cytoplasm or the outer mitochondrial membrane, and induces caspase-independent apoptosis (49) , is of uncertain function in LBs. Transmembrane protein, an integral membrane protein often localized to the lumen of the ER, may be involved in vesicular trafficking (50) . TD54 may be involved in vesicle trafficking; and in yeast, two-hybrid screening binds perilipin (51) . The functional roles of these candidate vesicular transport-mediating proteins vis-à-vis LBs remain largely unknown, although overexpression of Rab 18 has promoted LB association with the ER (44) .

ER-associated proteins identified in U937 LBs included oligosaccharyl transferase subunit, dehydrodolichyl diphosphate synthase, and dolichyl-phosphate-glucosyl transferase as well as ER-associated chaperones or folding proteins. The latter included BiP, an intraluminal ER protein, calnexin, a transmembrane ER protein, and protein disulfide isomerase; these have been localized to LBs in other cell types (Table 1) . EM studies demonstrated close associations of ER with LBs in U937 cells (Fig. 2B-D ). The points of LB contacts with ER cisternae have been noted to be ribosome-rich, as we found, and have been suggested to be named as an ER subdomain, "lipid droplet-associated membrane" (44) . While close associations of ER with LBs might contribute in part to the ER proteins identified in the proteomic analyses, LBs are considered to be derived from the ER and perhaps to have continuing interactions with it (3 , 17) .

Of the proteins identified with U937 LBs, several may have specific relevance for leukocyte LBs. Two proteins may be related to their myeloid origin. HSPC028, a basic leucine zipper protein, was first sequenced from CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor cells (52) , and its function is uncertain. Myeloid S100A9 (MRP14) can bind and transport arachidonate, and may shuttle unsaturated fatty acids to membranes (53 , 54) . With the activities of leukocyte LBs in arachidonate-derived eicosanoid formation, SA100A9 might participate in local arachidonate metabolism or delivering neutrophil LB-derived arachidonate to activate phagosomal NADPH oxidase (32 , 55) . Another protein potentially involved in arachidonate metabolism in LBs is triglyceride lipase. Neutrophils store arachidonate in triglyceride pools in LBs (25) and transfer arachidonate from triglycerides into phospholipids (56) . Triglyceride lipase could release arachidonate from triglycerides to enter LB phospholipids, from which regulated activation of PLA2 would provide arachidonate for eicosanoid synthesis. Likewise, LB-associated CG-58 might also mediate fatty acid transfer from triglycerides to phospholipids (10) .

Novel findings from proteomic analyses were the identification of several ribosomal subunit proteins as well as translation initiation factors in isolated LBs. Although care was taken to minimize contamination of isolated buoyant LBs, it is possible that some ribosomes were durably associated with LBs throughout the isolation. EM analyses of U937 cells, neutrophils, and eosinophils, however, were also informative. Free ribosomes or rough ER profiles were attached to the borders of LBs (Fig. 3A ), and ribosomes or particles resembling ribosomal subunits were present within U937 (Fig. 3A, B ) and neutrophil (Fig. 4Ab ) LBs. In agonist-stimulated eosinophils, which contained large LBs, ribosomes were both attached to the periphery of LBs and distributed within LB cores (Fig. 4Cb ). Thus, EM of U937 cells, neutrophils, and eosinophils demonstrated ribosomes present around and within LBs, in support of proteomic findings of ribosomal subunit proteins in isolated U937 LBs. Recently, proteomic analyses of Drosophila and yeast LBs have likewise identified ribosomal proteins (57 , 58) , and proteomic analyses of LBs from hepatitis C virus core protein expressing hepatoma cell have identified ribosomal and RNA-interacting (DEAD box) proteins (13) .

That LBs in leukocytes may be sites of ribosomal function is consonant with prior ultrastructural studies of LBs in human mast cells: 1) 3H-uridine accumulated in these LBs; 2) RNA was localized within LBs by affinity-staining with an RNase-gold probe and by antiribosomal antibody (Ab) and antiuridine Ab immunogold labelings; 3) poly(A)mRNA was detected within LBs by in situ hybridization with a poly(U) probe; and 4) several human autoimmune sera to ribosomal component proteins immunolabeled LBs (59 , 60) . Moreover, our ongoing studies in a mast cell line transfected with a GFP-5-LO encoding plasmid are demonstrating translation and de novo synthesis of GFP-5-LO protein within LBs (unpublished results). Thus, ribosomal localization at and within LBs in leukocytes may be linked to compartmentalized protein synthesis at LBs.

Finally, a new finding from our ultrastructural studies was the identification of internal membranous structures within LBs, especially notable within eosinophils. Robenek et al., whose freeze fracture EM studies demonstrated concentric lamellae within LBs when conventional transmission EM revealed apparently homogenous lipid staining, have suggested that vagaries in chemical fixation and/or lipid solvents have prevented recognition of internal structures within LBs in most cells (17) . Upon closer examination, EM images of LBs, however, such as those from U937 cells (Fig. 2D ), often demonstrated inhomogeneities within the neutral lipid-rich cores of LBs. In eosinophils, our prior transmission EM at times revealed honeycomb patterns within eosinophil LBs (see Fig. 3 in ref. 22 ); and EM immunogold staining for 5-LO, an enzyme that associates with membranes for its activation and catalysis, was distributed throughout LBs (22) .

One contemporary model of LB biogenesis has neutral lipids accumulating between the cytoplasmic and luminal leaflets of ER membranes, followed by the budding off of LBs surrounded by a phospholipid monolayer derived from the cytoplasmic leaflets of ER membranes (17) . This model, which has not been corroborated by EM images of developing LBs, accords with the recognized phospholipid monolayer that surrounds LBs (4) , but fails to account for a solely noncircumferential topology of membrane-associated proteins in LBs. More than half of the proteins identified in the U937 LB proteome were membrane-spanning proteins or contained predicted membrane insertion domains (Table 1) . With this model, these proteins could insert only in the circumferential membrane of LBs. LTC4 synthase, localized fully within eosinophil LBs (22) , is a transmembrane-spanning protein, like the luminal ER protein, calnexin, also commonly found in LBs (Table 1) . The freeze fracture immunogold EM studies of Robenek et al. demonstrated that caveolin-1 was located on the luminal leaflets of ER membranes and distributed within LBs (17) . The same group likewise localized TIP47 and adipophilin within LBs, but noted how TIP47 and adipophilin, as polar proteins, and membrane-associated caveolin-1 could partition within LB cores that were assumed to contained only membrane-devoid neutral lipids, has been an enigma (16 , 17) .

The freeze fracture EM studies that demonstrated lamellae, often in concentric circles, in LBs in smooth muscle and macrophages (16 17 18) would be compatible with internalized ER-derived membranes. Our findings that ribosomes, which are associated with cytoplasmic surfaces of rough ER membranes, and several ER luminal proteins were also present within LBs suggest a new model for LB formation (Fig. 6 ) by which LBs form by incorporating multiple loops of ER membranes (both cytoplasmic and luminal leaflets of membranes within the developing LB). Such a model would be in accord with the freeze fracture EM studies and our EM demonstrations of membranes within leukocyte LBs. Such a model by incorporating cytoplasmic membranes of the ER to which ribosomes are attached would provide a means for ribosomes to become incorporated with LBs. Moreover, by providing for the inclusion of luminal regions of the ER within LBs, this model would reconcile numerous heretofore unresolved observations that include how luminal ER proteins, such as caveolin-1 and calnexin, may be localized within LBs. Both PGHS-1 and -2 are integral membrane proteins and contain C-terminal KDEL-like sequences that target PGHS to the luminal surfaces of the ER and to nuclear envelope membranes, as confirmed by immunogold EM (61) . In studies of LBs, immunogold EM has localized PGHSs throughout LBs in multiple leukocytes (27 , 28) . Loops or sheets of ER-derived membranes within LBs would also provide the means for membrane-associated or membrane-spanning proteins to be localized within LBs and not solely in the circumferential membrane monolayer. Accumulations of neutral lipids would develop among the membranes within LBs. Although such a model of LB organization might be germane principally to LBs in leukocytes, it is also likely that LBs in other cells share a common organization. As noted earlier, PGHSs have been localized to LBs in diverse nonleukocytic cells (30 , 31) . Both stanniocalcin and its membrane-associated receptor are present on LBs in ovarian steroidogenic cells and adipocytes (62) , but how a membrane receptor could be associated with LBs had been uncertain. The presence of ER-derived membranes within LBs in steroidogenic cells and adipocytes would provide a means for receptors and other membrane-associated proteins to be localized within LBs.


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  		Figure 6. Model of the structure of lipid bodies. LBs contain enfolded ER membranes, accounting for the localization of luminal ER proteins within LBs and providing internal membranes into which membrane-associated proteins may insert. The circumferential border of LBs is the phospholipid monolayer of the cytoplasmic leaflet of the ER. Neutral lipids accumulate within LBs and may obscure their internal membranes. Ribosomes associated with the ER are at the periphery of LBs as well as within them.

In summary, the evolving understanding of LBs as organelles extends beyond their conventional roles in neutral lipid metabolism and their more recently indicated involvement in vesicular trafficking. Based on proteomic and ultrastructural studies of human leukocyte LBs, we propose a novel model for LB biogenesis and identify LBs as organelles containing ER-derived membranous domains and proteins as well as ribosomes, and with functional capabilities that may include local protein synthesis.


   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grants AI33372, AI20241, AI22571, and HL70270. R.C.N.M. was supported by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq, Brazil). We thank Dr. Steven Gygi and Ross Tomaino in the Taplin BioMassSpectrum Facility, Harvard Medical School for assisting in MS/LS analyses.


   FOOTNOTES
 
1 These authors contributed equally to this work.

Received for publication June 15, 2006. Accepted for publication August 7, 2006.


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