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Department of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03755
1 To whom correspondence should be addressed. e-mail: ta.yuan.chang{at}dartmouth.edu
Niemann-Pick type C1 disease (NPC1) is an inherited neurovisceral lipid storage disorder, hallmarked by the intracellular accumulation of unesterified cholesterol and glycolipids in endocytic organelles. Cells acquire cholesterol through exogenous uptake and endogenous biosynthesis. NPC1 participation in the trafficking of LDL-derived cholesterol has been well studied; however, its role in the trafficking of endogenously synthesized cholesterol (endoCHOL) has received much less attention. Previously, using mutant Chinese hamster ovary cells, we showed that endoCHOL moves from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to the plasma membrane (PM) independent of NPC1. After arriving at the PM, it moves between the PM and internal compartments. The movement of endoCHOL from internal membranes back to the PM and the ER for esterification was shown to be defective in NPC1 cells. To test the generality of these findings, we have examined the trafficking of endoCHOL in four different physiologically relevant cell types isolated from wild-type, heterozygous, and homozygous BALB/c NPC1NIH mice. The results show that all NPC1 homozygous cell types (embryonic fibroblasts, peritoneal macrophages, hepatocytes, and cerebellar glial cells) exhibit partial trafficking defects, with macrophages and glial cells most prominently affected.
Our findings suggest that endoCHOL may contribute significantly to the overall cholesterol accumulation observed in selective tissues affected by Niemann-Pick type C disease.
Abbreviations: CD, cyclodextrin; CHO, Chinese hamster ovary; CNS, central nervous system; endoCHOL, endogenously synthesized cholesterol; ER, endoplasmic reticulum; MEF, mouse embryonic fibroblast; MPM, mouse peritoneal macrophage; NPC1, Niemann-Pick type C1; PM, plasma membrane
Supplementary key words intracellular cholesterol trafficking • NPC disease • cholesterol biosynthesis • acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase • membrane recycling
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