Journal of Lipid Research, Vol. 7, 698-707, September 1966
Copyright © 1966 by Lipid Research, Inc.
Sites of control of hepatic cholesterol biosynthesis
R. Gordon Gould and E. A. Swyryd
Department of Medicine, Stanford Medical School, Palo Alto, California
An inhibition in the conversion of mevalonate to cholesterol has been demonstrated in liver of cholesterol-fed rats by both in vitro and in vivo methods. Synthesis decreased to 30% of the control value after 1 week and 20% after 1 month on a 1% cholesterol diet. After a year, synthesis from mevalonate was almost completely inhibited.
The rate of conversion of squalene to cholesterol was not consistently decreased but that of farnesyl pyrophosphate to cholesterol was decreased considerably. The rate of conversion of mevalonate to farnesyl pyrophosphate by a soluble liver enzyme preparation was also decreased in cholesterol-fed animals. Sites of inhibition of cholesterol synthesis were detected before mevalonate, between mevalonate and farnesyl pyrophosphate, and after farnesyl pyrophosphate, probably at the conversion of farnesyl pyrophosphate to squalene. The inhibition of mevalonate conversion to cholesterol developed more slowly than that of acetate and appeared to be secondary to it.
The maximum capacities of normal liver homogenates and slices to synthesize cholesterol from mevalonate were shown to be far greater than from acetate. Consequently, sites of inhibition after mevalonate probably do not have a significant effect on the over-all rate of cholesterol synthesis in the intact cholesterol-fed animal.
Supplementary key words cholesterol • feedback • inhibition • acetate • mevalonate • farnesyl pyrophosphate • squalene • biosynthesis • hydroxymethyl glutaryl CoA • diet • homeostasis • rat
Submitted on March 23, 1966
Accepted on June 14, 1966
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