Control of cellular cholesterol efflux by the nuclear oxysterol receptor LXRα

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - Tập 97 Số 22 - Trang 12097-12102 - 2000
Asha Venkateswaran1, Bryan Laffitte1, Sean B. Joseph1, Puiying A. Mak1, Damien C. Wilpitz1, Peter A. Edwards1, Peter Tontonoz1
1Departments of Biological Chemistry and Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095

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LXRα is a nuclear receptor that has previously been shown to regulate the metabolic conversion of cholesterol to bile acids. Here we define a role for this transcription factor in the control of cellular cholesterol efflux. We demonstrate that retroviral expression of LXRα in NIH 3T3 fibroblasts or RAW264.7 macrophages and/or treatment of these cells with oxysterol ligands of LXR results in 7- to 30-fold induction of the mRNA encoding the putative cholesterol/phospholipid transporter ATP-binding cassette (ABC)A1. In contrast, induction of ABCA1 mRNA in response to oxysterols is attenuated in cells that constitutively express dominant-negative forms of LXRα or LXRβ that lack the AF2 transcriptional activation domain. We further demonstrate that expression of LXRα in NIH 3T3 fibroblasts and/or treatment of these cells with oxysterols is sufficient to stimulate cholesterol efflux to extracellular apolipoprotein AI. The ability of oxysterol ligands of LXR to stimulate efflux is dramatically reduced in Tangier fibroblasts, which carry a loss of function mutation in the ABCA1 gene. Taken together, these results indicate that cellular cholesterol efflux is controlled, at least in part, at the level of transcription by a nuclear receptor–signaling pathway. They suggest a model in which activation of LXRs by oxysterols in response to cellular sterol loading leads to induction of the ABCA1 transporter and the stimulation of lipid efflux to extracellular acceptors. These findings have important implications for our understanding of mammalian cholesterol homeostasis and suggest new opportunities for pharmacological regulation of cellular lipid metabolism.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Tập 97 Số 22

12097-12102

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