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Holland R, McIntosh AL, Finucane OM, Mela V, Rubio-Araiz A, Timmons G, McCarthy SA, Gun'ko YK, Lynch MA. Inflammatory microglia are glycolytic and iron retentive and typify the microglia in APP/PS1 mice. Brain Behav Immun 2018; 68:183-196. [PMID: 29061364 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2017.10.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2017] [Revised: 10/06/2017] [Accepted: 10/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Microglia, like macrophages, can adopt inflammatory and anti-inflammatory phenotypes depending on the stimulus. In macrophages, the evidence indicates that these phenotypes have different metabolic profiles with lipopolysaccharide (LPS)- or interferon-γ (IFNγ)-stimulated inflammatory cells switching to glycolysis as their main source of ATP and interleukin-4 (IL-4)-stimulated cells utilizing oxidative phosphorylation. There is a paucity of information regarding the metabolic signatures of inflammatory and anti-inflammatory microglia. Here, we polarized primary microglia with IFNγ and show that the characteristic increases in tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα) and nitric oxide synthase 2 (NOS2) were accompanied by increased glycolysis and an increase in the expression of 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-biphosphatase (PFKFB)3, an enzyme that plays a significant role in driving glycolysis. These changes were associated with increased expression of ferritin and retention of iron in microglia. Significantly, retention of iron in microglia increased TNFα expression and also increased glycolysis suggesting that increased intracellular iron concentration may drive the metabolic and/or inflammatory changes. Analysis of microglia prepared from wildtype mice and from transgenic mice that overexpress amyloid precursor protein (APP) and presenilin 1 (PS1; APP/PS1) revealed genotype-related increases in glycolysis, accompanied by increased PFKFB3, and an increase in the expression of ferritin. The data indicate a distinct metabolic signature of inflammatory microglia from APP/PS1 mice that are also distinguishable by their iron handling profiles.
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- R Holland
- Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- School of Chemistry and CRANN, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- School of Chemistry and CRANN, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland.
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McIntosh AL, Gormley S, Tozzi L, Frodl T, Harkin A. Recent Advances in Translational Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Animal Models of Stress and Depression. Front Cell Neurosci 2017; 11:150. [PMID: 28596724 PMCID: PMC5442179 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2017.00150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2017] [Accepted: 05/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a valuable translational tool that can be used to investigate alterations in brain structure and function in both patients and animal models of disease. Regional changes in brain structure, functional connectivity, and metabolite concentrations have been reported in depressed patients, giving insight into the networks and brain regions involved, however preclinical models are less well characterized. The development of more effective treatments depends upon animal models that best translate to the human condition and animal models may be exploited to assess the molecular and cellular alterations that accompany neuroimaging changes. Recent advances in preclinical imaging have facilitated significant developments within the field, particularly relating to high resolution structural imaging and resting-state functional imaging which are emerging techniques in clinical research. This review aims to bring together the current literature on preclinical neuroimaging in animal models of stress and depression, highlighting promising avenues of research toward understanding the pathological basis of this hugely prevalent disorder.
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- Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College DublinDublin, Ireland
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- Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College DublinDublin, Ireland
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- Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College DublinDublin, Ireland.,Universitätsklinikum A.ö.R, Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Medizinische Fakultät, Otto von Guericke UniversitätMagdeburg, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College DublinDublin, Ireland.,School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical sciences, Trinity College DublinDublin, Ireland
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McIntosh AL, Ballard TM, Steward LJ, Moran PM, Fone KCF. The atypical antipsychotic risperidone reverses the recognition memory deficits induced by post-weaning social isolation in rats. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2013; 228:31-42. [PMID: 23397053 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-013-3011-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2012] [Accepted: 01/23/2013] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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RATIONALE Rearing rats in isolation from weaning is an established preclinical neurodevelopmental model which induces behavioural deficits with apparent translational relevance to some core symptoms of schizophrenia. OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the ability of the atypical antipsychotic risperidone to reverse behavioural deficits induced by post-weaning social isolation of rat pups and to further characterise the predictive validity of this model. METHOD Forty-five male Lister hooded rats were housed in groups of 3-4 (n = 16) or singly (n = 29) for 4 weeks immediately after weaning on postnatal day (PND) 22-24. On PND 51, novel cage-induced locomotor activity (LMA) was assessed to subdivide rats into groups balanced for behavioural response. On PNDs 58, 59, 65 and 72, rats received either vehicle (1 ml/kg; i.p.) or risperidone (0.2 or 0.5 mg/kg; i.p.) 30 min prior to testing in LMA, novel object discrimination (NOD), prepulse inhibition (PPI) of acoustic startle and conditioned emotional response (CER) learning paradigms, respectively. RESULTS Isolation rearing had no effect on PPI, but produced LMA hyperactivity and impaired NOD and CER compared to group-housed controls. Risperidone caused a dose-dependent reduction in LMA, irrespective of rearing condition, but selectively reversed the NOD deficit in isolation-reared rats. Risperidone did not reverse the isolation rearing-induced CER deficit. CONCLUSIONS Similar to its clinical profile, risperidone only partially reverses the schizophrenic symptomology; since it reversed some, but not all, of the learning and memory deficits induced by post-weaning isolation, the isolation rearing model may be useful to predict antipsychotic activity of novel therapeutic agents.
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- Allison L McIntosh
- School of Biomedical Sciences, Medical School, Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK
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Wang Z, McIntosh AL, McElmurry BA, Walton JR, Lucchese RR, Bevan JW. Improved Morphed Potentials for Ar−HBr Including Scaling to the Experimentally Determined Dissociation Energy. J Phys Chem A 2005; 109:8168-79. [PMID: 16834203 DOI: 10.1021/jp0521104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A lead salt diode infrared laser spectrometer has been employed to investigate the rotational predissociation in Ar-HBr for transitions up to J' = 79 in the v(1) HBr stretching vibration of the complex using a slit jet and static gas phase. Line-shape analysis and modeling of the predissociation lifetimes have been used to determine a ground-state dissociation energy D(0) of 130(1) cm(-1). In addition, potential energy surfaces based on ab initio calculations are scaled, shifted, and dilated to generate three-dimensional morphed potentials for Ar-HBr that reproduce the measured value of D(0) and that have predictive capabilities for spectroscopic data with nearly experimental uncertainty. Such calculations also provide a basis for making a comprehensive comparison of the different morphed potentials generated using the methodologies applied.
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- Z Wang
- Chemistry and Mathematics Departments, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3255, USA
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Castillo-Chará J, McIntosh AL, Wang Z, Lucchese RR, Bevan JW. Near-infrared spectra and rovibrational dynamics on a four-dimensional ab initio potential energy surface of (HBr)2. J Chem Phys 2004; 120:10426-41. [PMID: 15268071 DOI: 10.1063/1.1736632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Supersonic jet investigations of the (HBr)(2) dimer have been carried out using a tunable diode laser spectrometer to provide accurate data for comparison with results from a four-dimensional (4-D) ab initio potential energy surface (PES). The near-infrared nu(1) (+/-), nu(2) (+/-), and (nu(1)+nu(4))(-) bands of (H (79)Br)(2), (H (79)Br-H (81)Br), and (H (81)Br)(2) isotopomers have been recorded in the range 2500-2600 cm(-1) using a CW slit jet expansion with an upgraded near-infrared diode laser spectrometer. The 4-D PES has been calculated for (HBr)(2) using second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation theory with an augmented and polarized 6-311G basis set. The potential is characterized by a global minimum occurring at the H bond structure with the distance between the center of masses (CM) of the monomer being R(CM)=4.10 A with angles theta(A)=10 degrees, theta(B)=100 degrees and a well depth of 692.2 cm(-1), theta(A) is the angle the HBr bond of monomer A makes with the vector from the CM of A to the CM of B, and theta(B) is the corresponding angle monomer B makes with the same CM-CM vector. The barrier for the H interchange occurs at the closed C(2h) structure for which R(CM)=4.07 A, theta(A)=45 degrees, theta(B)=135 degrees, and the barrier height is 73.9 cm(-1). The PES was fitted using a linear-least squares method and the rovibrational energy levels of the complex were calculated by a split pseudospectral method. The spectroscopic data provide accurate molecular parameters for the dimer that are then compared with the results predicted on the basis of the 4-D ab initio PES.
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- J Castillo-Chará
- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3255, USA
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Schroeder F, Gallegos AM, Atshaves BP, Storey SM, McIntosh AL, Petrescu AD, Huang H, Starodub O, Chao H, Yang H, Frolov A, Kier AB. Recent advances in membrane microdomains: rafts, caveolae, and intracellular cholesterol trafficking. Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 2001; 226:873-90. [PMID: 11682693 DOI: 10.1177/153537020122601002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Cellular cholesterol homeostasis is a balance of influx, catabolism and synthesis, and efflux. Unlike vascular lipoprotein cholesterol transport, intracellular cholesterol trafficking is only beginning to be resolved. Exogenous cholesterol and cholesterol ester enter cells via the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor/lysosomal and less so by nonvesicular, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) receptor/caveolar pathways. However, the mechanism(s) whereby cholesterol enters the lysosomal membrane, translocates, and transfers out of the lysosome to the cell interior are unknown. Likewise, the steps whereby cholesterol enters the cytofacial leaflet of the plasma membrane caveolae, rapidly translocates, leaves the exofacial leaflet, and transfers to extracellular HDL are unclear. Increasing evidence obtained with model and isolated cell membranes, transfected cells, genetic mutants, and gene-ablated mice suggests that proteins such as caveolin, sterol carrier protein-2 (SCP-2), Niemann-Pick C1 protein, steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR), and other intracellular proteins mediate intracellular cholesterol transfer. While these proteins bind cholesterol and/or interact with cholesterol-rich membrane microdomains (e.g., caveolae, rafts, and annuli), their relative contributions to direct molecular versus vesicular cholesterol transfer remain to be resolved. The formation, regulation, and role of membrane microdomains in regulating cholesterol uptake/efflux and trafficking are unclear. Some cholesterol-binding proteins exert opposing effects on cellular cholesterol uptake/efflux, transfer of cholesterol out of the lysosomal membrane, and/or intracellular cholesterol trafficking to select membranous organelles. Resolving these cholesterol pathways and the role of membrane cholesterol microdomains is essential to our understanding not only of processes that affect cholesterol metabolism, but also of the abnormal regulation that may lead to disease (diabetes, obesity, atherosclerosis, neutral lipid storage, Niemann-Pick C, congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia, etc.).
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- F Schroeder
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Texas A&M University, TVMC, College Station, Texas 77843-4466, USA.
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Gallegos AM, Atshaves BP, Storey SM, Starodub O, Petrescu AD, Huang H, McIntosh AL, Martin GG, Chao H, Kier AB, Schroeder F. Gene structure, intracellular localization, and functional roles of sterol carrier protein-2. Prog Lipid Res 2001; 40:498-563. [PMID: 11591437 DOI: 10.1016/s0163-7827(01)00015-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 175] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Since its discovery three decades ago, sterol carrier protein-2 (SCP-2) has remained a fascinating protein whose physiological function in lipid metabolism remains an enigma. Its multiple proposed functions arise from its complex gene structure, post-translational processing, intracellular localization, and ligand specificity. The SCP-2 gene has two initiation sites coding for proteins that share a common 13 kDa SCP-2 C-terminus: (1) One site codes for 58 kDa SCP-x which is partially post-translationally cleaved to 13 kDa SCP-2 and a 45 kDa protein. (2) A second site codes for 15 kDa pro-SCP-2 which is completely post-translationally cleaved to 13 kDa SCP-2. Very little is yet known regarding how the relative proportions of the two transcripts are regulated. Although all three proteins contain a C-terminal SKL peroxisomal targeting sequence, it is unclear why all three proteins are not exclusively localized in peroxisomes. However, the recent demonstration that the SCP-2 N-terminal presequence in pro-SCP-2 dramatically modulated the intracellular targeting coded by the C-terminal peroxisomal targeting sequence may account for the observation that as much as half of total SCP-2 is localized outside the peroxisome. The tertiary and secondary structure of the 13 kDa SCP-2, but not that of 15 kDa pro-SCP-2 and 58 kDa SCP-x, are now resolved. Increasing evidence suggests that the 58 kDa SCP-x and 45 kDa proteins are peroxisomal 3-ketoacyl-CoA-thiolases involved in the oxidation of branched chain fatty acids. Since 15 kDa pro-SCP-2 is post-translationally completely cleaved to 13 kDa SCP-2, relatively little attention has been focused on this protein. Finally, although the 13 kDa SCP-2 is the most studied of these proteins, because it exhibits diversity of its ligand partners (fatty acids, fatty acyl CoAs, cholesterol, phospholipids), new potential physiological function(s) are still being proposed and questions regarding potential compensation by other proteins with overlapping specificity are only beginning to be resolved.
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- A M Gallegos
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Texas A&M University, TVMC, College Station, TX 77843-4467, USA
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Atshaves BP, Storey SM, McIntosh AL, Petrescu AD, Lyuksyutova OI, Greenberg AS, Schroeder F. Sterol carrier protein-2 expression modulates protein and lipid composition of lipid droplets. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:25324-35. [PMID: 11333258 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m100560200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Despite the critical role lipid droplets play in maintaining energy reserves and lipid stores for the cell, little is known about the regulation of the lipid or protein components within the lipid droplet. Although immunofluorescence of intact cells as well as Western analysis of isolated lipid droplets revealed that sterol carrier protein-2 (SCP-2) was not associated with lipid droplets, SCP-2 expression significantly altered the structure of the lipid droplet. First, the targeting of fatty acid and cholesterol to the lipid droplets was significantly decreased. Second, the content of several proteins important for lipid droplet function was differentially increased (perilipin A), reduced severalfold (adipose differentiation-related protein (ADRP), vimentin), or almost completely eliminated (hormone-sensitive lipase and proteins >93 kDa) in the isolated lipid droplet. Third, the distribution of lipids within the lipid droplets was significantly altered. Double labeling of cells with 12-(N-methyl)-N-[(7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazol-4-yl) amino]-octadecanoic acid (NBD-stearic acid) and antisera to ADRP showed that 70, 24, and 13% of lipid droplets contained ADRP, NBD-stearic acid, or both, respectively. SCP-2 expression decreased the level of ADRP in the lipid droplet but increased the proportion wherein ADRP and NBD-stearic acid colocalized by 3-fold. SCP-2 expression also decreased the lipid droplet fatty acid and cholesterol mass (nmol/mg protein) by 5.2- and 6.6-fold, respectively. Finally, SCP-2 expression selectively altered the pattern of esterified fatty acids in favor of polyunsaturated fatty acids within the lipid droplet. Displacement studies showed differential binding affinity of ADRP for cholesterol and fatty acids. These data suggested that SCP-2 and ADRP play a significant role in regulating fatty acid and cholesterol targeting to lipid droplets as well as in determining their lipid and protein components.
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- B P Atshaves
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843-4466, USA
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Gallegos AM, Atshaves BP, Storey SM, McIntosh AL, Petrescu AD, Schroeder F. Sterol Carrier Protein-2 Expression Alters Plasma Membrane Lipid Distribution and Cholesterol Dynamics. Biochemistry 2001; 40:6493-506. [PMID: 11371213 DOI: 10.1021/bi010217l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Although sterol carrier protein-2 (SCP-2) binds, transfers, and/or enhances the metabolism of many membrane lipid species (fatty acids, cholesterol, phospholipids), it is not known if SCP-2 expression actually alters the membrane distribution of lipids in living cells or tissues. As shown herein for the first time, expression of SCP-2 in transfected L-cell fibroblasts reduced the plasma membrane levels of lipid species known to traffic through the HDL-receptor-mediated efflux pathway: cholesterol, cholesteryl esters, and phospholipids. While the ratio of cholesterol/phospholipid in plasma membranes of intact cells was not changed by SCP-2 expression, phosphatidylinositol, a molecule important to intracellular signaling and vesicular trafficking, and anionic phospholipids were selectively retained. Only modest alterations in plasma membrane phospholipid percent fatty acid composition but no overall change in the proportion of saturated, unsaturated, monounsaturated, or polyunsaturated fatty acids were observed. The reduced plasma membrane content of cholesterol was not due to SCP-2 inhibition of sterol transfer from the lysosomes to the plasma membranes. SCP-2 dramatically enhanced sterol transfer from isolated lysosomal membranes to plasma membranes by eliciting detectable sterol transfer within 30 s, decreasing the t(1/2) for sterol transfer 364-fold from >4 days to 7-15 min, and inducing formation of rapidly transferable sterol domains. In summary, data obtained with intact transfected cells and in vitro sterol transfer assays showed that SCP-2 expression (i) selectively modulated plasma membrane lipid composition and (ii) decreased the plasma membrane content cholesterol, an effect potentially due to more rapid SCP-2-mediated cholesterol transfer from versus to the plasma membrane.
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- A M Gallegos
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Texas A&M University, TVMC, College Station, Texas 77843-4466, USA
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Although the majority of exogenous cholesterol and cholesterol ester enters the cell by LDL-receptor-mediated endocytosis and the lysosomal pathway, the assumption that cholesterol transfers out of the lysosome by rapid (minutes), spontaneous diffusion has heretofore not been tested. As shown herein, lysosomal membranes were unique among known organellar membranes in terms of cholesterol content, cholesterol dynamics, and response to cholesterol-mobilizing proteins. First, the lysosomal membrane cholesterol:phospholipid molar ratio, 0.38, was intermediate between those of the plasma membrane and other organellar membranes. Second, a fluorescence sterol exchange assay showed that the initial rate of spontaneous sterol transfer out of lysosomes and purified lysosomal membranes was extremely slow, t(1/2) >4 days. This was >100-fold longer than that reported in intact cells (2 min) and 40-60-fold longer than from any other known intracellular membrane. Third, when probed with several cholesterol-binding proteins, the initial rate of sterol transfer was maximally increased nearly 80-fold and the organization of cholesterol in the lysosomal membrane was rapidly altered. Nearly half of the essentially nonexchangeable sterol in the lysosomal membrane was converted to rapidly (t(1/2) = 6 min; fraction = 0.06) and slowly (t(1/2) = 154 min; fraction = 0.36) exchangeable sterol domains/pools. In summary, the data revealed that spontaneous cholesterol transfer out of the lysosome and lysosomal membrane was extremely slow, inconsistent with rapid spontaneous diffusion across the lysosomal membrane. In contrast, the very slow spontaneous transfer of sterol out of the lysosome and lysosomal membrane was consistent with cholesterol leaving the lysosome earlier in the endocytic process and/or with cholesterol transfer out of the lysosome being mediated by additional process(es) extrinsic to the lysosome and lysosomal membrane.
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- J K Schoer
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Texas A&M University, TVMC, College Station, Texas 77843-4466, USA
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