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Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 30, 1357-1364, Copyright © 1989 by Lipid Research, Inc.

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Cholesterol transfer from mitochondrial membranes and cells to human and rat serum lipoprotein fractions

GP van Heusden, JW van Schijndel and KW Wirtz
Centre for Biomembranes and Lipid Enzymology, Transitorium III, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

We have investigated the transfer of [14C]cholesterol from labeled bovine heart mitochondria and Friend erythroleukemic cells to high density lipoprotein (HDL), low density lipoprotein (LDL), and very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) fractions from human and rat plasma. The lipoprotein fractions were obtained by molecular sieve chromatography of plasma on agarose A-5m columns. For either membrane system, the highest rate of [14C]cholesterol transfer was observed with the human and the rat HDL fraction. Since the mitochondria lack the receptors for HDL, one may conclude that the observed preferential transfer is not governed by a receptor-controlled interaction of HDL with the membrane. Under conditions where the pool of free cholesterol in the lipoprotein fractions was the same, HDL was a much more efficient acceptor of [14C]cholesterol from mitochondria than LDL or VLDL. Similarly, transfer of [14C]cholesterol proceeded at a higher rate to HDL than to sonicated egg phosphatidylcholine (PC) vesicles, even under conditions where there was a tenfold excess of the vesicle-PC pool over the HDL phospholipid pool. This preferred transfer of [14C]cholesterol to HDL cannot be explained by a random diffusion of monomer cholesterol molecules. Rather, it shows that HDL has a specific effect on this process in the sense that it most likely enhances the efflux of cholesterol from the membrane. Treatment of HDL with trypsin reduced the rate of [14C]cholesterol transfer by 40-50%, indicating that protein component(s) are involved. One of these components appears to be apoA-I, as this protein was shown to enhance the transfer of [14C]cholesterol from mitochondria to lipid vesicles.
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