Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 32, 507-514, Copyright © 1991 by Lipid Research, Inc.

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Dissociated regulation of macrophage LDL receptor and apolipoprotein E gene expression by sterol

T Mazzone and K Basheeruddin
Department of Medicine, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612.

The control of apoE gene expression by sterols and the relationship between regulation of the apoE and low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor genes were investigated in a human macrophage line. Incubation of THP1 cells in either LDL or acetylated LDL increased apoE mRNA levels 4- to 15-fold. In addition, the cellular abundance of these two mRNA species (apoE and LDL receptor) was inversely regulated by cellular cholesterol content over an identical dose-response relationship. Regulation of the LDL receptor and apoE genes could, however, be temporally dissociated in response to the accumulation or removal of lipoprotein-derived (exogenous) cholesterol and in response to perturbation of endogenous cellular cholesterol biosynthesis. In addition, we observed that the apoE gene responded more promptly to 25- hydroxycholesterol than to exogenous cholesterol. These data support the concept that the apoE gene be considered among the family of genes sensitively regulated by cellular sterol balance but suggest that the molecular mechanism accounting for the modulation of the LDL receptor and apoE genes are distinct, with the relationship between cell sterol balance and apoE gene regulation being more complex.
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