Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 32, 1811-1821, Copyright © 1991 by Lipid Research, Inc.

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Regulation of gene expression and synthesis and degradation of 3- hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase by micellar cholesterolin CaCo-2 cells

FJ Field, T Shreves, D Fujiwara, S Murthy, E Albright and SN Mathur
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242.

To investigate whether, and by what mechanisms, luminal (dietary) cholesterol regulates cholesterol synthesis in human intestinal cells, HMG-CoA reductase activity, gene expression, synthesis, and degradation were investigated in CaCo-2 cells exposed to taurocholate micelles containing cholesterol. In cells incubated with cholesterol solubilized in 5 mM taurocholate and 30 microM monoolein, HMG-CoA reductase activity was decreased. 25-Hydroxycholesterol, delivered to the cells in the same manner as native cholesterol, was significantly more potent in inhibiting reductase activity and was used, therefore, to investigate mechanisms for sterol regulation. Cells incubated with taurocholate micelles without cholesterol lost cellular cholesterol into the medium causing an increase in HMG-CoA reductase activity and enzyme mass. Although steady-state levels of HMG-CoA reductase mRNA were increased under conditions of cholesterol efflux, synthesis rates of reductase protein were not increased. An increase in activity and enzyme mass in cells incubated with micelles alone, however, was accompanied by a significant decrease in the rate of degradation of reductase protein. In contrast, sterol influx from taurocholate micelles was associated with a marked decrease in HMG-CoA reductase activity and mass without altering mRNA levels except at high concentrations of the polar sterol which did decrease reductase mRNA levels by 50%. The absorption of apical sterol resulted in a significant decrease in the translational efficiency of reductase mRNA and a modest increase in the rate of degradation of the enzyme. Thus, although the primary function of the enterocyte is to transport luminal (dietary) cholesterol to other tissues of the body, apically derived cholesterol enters metabolic pools within the cell which regulates its own cholesterol synthesis. Dietary cholesterol, therefore, will regulate the contribution to the total body cholesterol pool of endogenously derived cholesterol from the intestine. The mechanism for this regulation of intestinal HMG-CoA reductase by luminal cholesterol occurs primarily at the post-transcriptional level.
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