Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 27, 261-273, Copyright © 1986 by Lipid Research, Inc.

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Inhibition of lysosomal protein degradation inhibits the basal degradation of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase

RD Tanaka, AC Li, AM Fogelman and PA Edwards

The effect of inhibiting lysosomal protein degradation on the activity of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase was determined using a mouse mammary cell line (TS-85) which expresses a temperature-sensitive mutation in the ubiquitin degradative pathway. Incubating cells for 18 hr in medium containing 20 mM NH4Cl did not alter total protein synthesis or cell growth, but it did inhibit the rate of total protein degradation by 19%, which is consistent with the known inhibitory effect of NH4Cl on lysosomal protein degradation. NH4Cl treatment also resulted in an increase (81% +/- 20) in HMG-CoA reductase activity. The increase in reductase activity was not correlated with changes in the phosphorylation state of the enzyme or with alteration in the relative rate of reductase synthesis. However, the basal degradation rate of the reductase was significantly inhibited, and after NH4Cl treatment, the half-life of the enzyme increased from 4.0 +/- 0.4 hr to 8.3 +/- 0.8 hr. The change in the rate of reductase degradation can account completely for the increase in reductase activity observed in NH4Cl-treated cells. The accelerated degradation of HMG-CoA reductase induced by 25-hydroxycholesterol treatment was not affected by either NH4Cl or by inactivation of the ubiquitin degradative pathway. Therefore, two different mechanisms may be responsible for the accelerated degradation and basal degradation of HMG-CoA reductase. The latter can be inhibited by NH4Cl and may imply that under basal conditions the enzyme may be degraded in lysosomes.
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