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Apolipoprotein E expression in Y1 adrenal cells is associated with increased intracellular cholesterol content and reduced free cholesterol efflux.

Abstract：

:The expression of apoE mRNA in the adrenal gland is inversely correlated to steroidogenesis and directly correlated to the level of cholesteryl ester stores. To further investigate the relationship between apoE and cellular cholesterol homeostasis, several parameters of cholesterol metabolism in the murine Y1 adrenal cell line engineered to constitutively express human apoE (Y1-E cells) have been studied. It is reported here that Y1-E cells have increased cellular cholesterol content and markedly reduced efflux of free cholesterol as compared to control Y1 cells that do not express apoE. Y1-E cells have increases in both free and esterified cholesterol. However, Y1 and Y1-E cells incorporate [14C]oleate into cholesteryl ester at similar rates and have similar levels of maximal ACAT activity in isolated microsomes. Turnover of cholesteryl ester stores prelabeled with [14C]oleate occurred at similar rates in Y1-E and control Y1 cells, suggesting that increased cholesteryl ester stores in Y1-E cells do not result from reduced cholesteryl ester hydrolysis. Y1-E cells showed reduced cholesterol efflux as compared to control Y1 cells with either native high-density lipoprotein or cholesterol-free reconstituted particles as extracellular acceptors. Cholesterol efflux was not altered by inhibition of ACAT, suggesting that cholesterol esterification in Y1-E cells is not inhibiting efflux. These results suggest that reduced cholesterol efflux is responsible, at least in part, for the cholesterol accumulation in Y1-E cells. In comparison to the rat adrenal gland in vivo, Y1-E cells resemble adrenocortical cells under conditions where steroidogenesis is suppressed and apoE expression and cholesteryl ester storage are increased.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

journal_name

Biochemistry

journal_title

Biochemistry

authors

Prack MM,Rothblat GH,Erickson SK,Reyland ME,Williams DL

doi

10.1021/bi00183a007

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1994-05-03 00:00:00

pages

5049-55

issue

eissn

0006-2960

issn

1520-4995

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Apolipoprotein E expression in Y1 adrenal cells is associated with increased intracellular cholesterol content and reduced free cholesterol efflux.